[Buildroot] [PATCH] qt5: Disable pkg-config usage for cross-building

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Sep 23 05:57:22 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:58:17 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> I have not paid much attention to the previous discussion on the topic.
> 
> However, I think disabling use of pkg-config is wrong. That is qmake
> that is at fault here because, from what I understood from the previous
> discussion, it emits -isystem where it should not.
> 
> So qmake needs to be fixed to not emit -isystem in those conditions.
> 
> Removing the use of pkg-config is just papering over the real problem.
> 
> Usually, using pkg-config solves more issues than not using it.
> 
> So, I am not very happy with this patch, to say the least... :-(

I entirely agree with Yann. Disabling pkg-config is clearly not the
solution we want to use.

Alexey, have you tried the other approaches I outlined in the thread
where the initial discussion took place?

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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