[asterisk-dev] Still running into build issues w/ trunk, bug 17720

[Leif Madsen]

  On 7/29/2010 5:56 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>    On 7/29/10 1:57 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> Then what you are asking is for us to work around limitations of a tool
>> that is provided for our use, rather than fixing the tool. As best I can
>> tell, pg_config provides no facility to prefix the paths it outputs with
>> the build root you've installed it into, which makes it nearly
>> impossible to use in your environment. The proper solution to this
>> problem is modify that tool to accept a '--destdir' or similar option,
>> that it would use to prefix paths that it outputs that are to be used at
>> compile time and link time, but not at run time.
>>
> And this is the point that I've been trying to make.  That pkg-config is useless in cross-build environments.
>
> We're now on the same page.
Actually I took that to mean that the pg-config tool should be modified, 
and not Asterisk.

Leif Madsen.