Bug 11464

Summary:	pkg-config is not configuring while cross compiling
Product:	pkg-config	Reporter:	Satyanarayana K V P <satyam.kvp>
Component:	src	Assignee:	Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	freedesktop, pi00100100
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	ARM
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Satyanarayana K V P 2007-07-03 22:20:48 UTC

Dear sir,
 I am cross compiling pkg-config for arm-v5t_le.While configuring it is giving following error.I have removed that error by modifying configure script but it is giving error while making.

I am enclosing those errors below.

checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for glib-1.2.8


Please help me.

Thanks in advance,
Satyanarayana K V P.

Comment 1 Satyanarayana K V P 2007-07-04 00:17:40 UTC

*** Bug 11465 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Ryan Schmidt 2009-01-22 03:55:13 UTC

This issue was also reported on the mailing list in December 2008:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2008-December/000376.html

It's an issue for me as well. I am on an Intel Mac and would like to cross-compile for a 64-bit PowerPC Mac; Intel Macs can run 32-bit PowerPC code via Rosetta, but cannot run 64-bit PowerPC code.

Comment 3 Dan Nicholson 2012-05-14 16:10:20 UTC

I believe all the cross-compiling issues in pkg-config had to do with the embedded glib. glib-1.2 was known to have some issues with cross-compiling. pkg-config now depends on glib-2 and will include a bundled glib-2 in the next version. This one can be built if some cache variables are set:

http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-cross-compiling.html

So, you can either obtain an appropriate glib to depend on or use the internal glib following the above documentation. I've added this info the README and done a little testing that this works in a cross-compile scenario. See commit cfaffdc. Please reopen if this is not the case.

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