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

[Leif Madsen]

On 7/30/2010 1:09 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>    On 7/29/10 4:34 PM, Leif Madsen wrote:
>>     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.
>>
> Kevin was on the right track, that would be a solution... but it's not going to happen any time soon.

I don't see time to resolve an issue as the reason not to fix it correctly.

> A very similar "libtool is broken when cross-compiling" bug was filed over a year ago, and it has yet to be assigned or even verified.

I can't find this issue anywhere on the bug tracker. Can you be more 
pedantic please?

> While Kevin's solution may be technically accurate, it's unlikely.
>
> At least not in anything resembling a workable timeframe.

Again, I don't see the length of time as the reason not to fix this 
correctly.

> So moving on, what's the workaround we're going to go with?

I'm going to say the workaround is going to be the solution you develop 
or some other community developer develops in the meantime until the 
particular issue you're speaking of makes it up high enough on the 
priority list to be resolved by someone else.

Leif Madsen.