Bug 591636

Summary:	sys-devel/crossdev generated pkg-config ignores PKG_CONFIG_PATH
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Malte <malte.f.gerdes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Crossdev team <crossdev>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	embedded, freedesktop-bugs
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Malte 2016-08-18 20:49:54 UTC

I want to build some programs with the armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi toolchain which I generated via crossdev. 

It fails because it is not able to find a library which i installed locally into my home folder. 
Solution: set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to contain that local folder.

Now there is the problem the armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-pkg-config does not find the libraries .pc file while stock pkg-config does. Additionally armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-pkg-config fails with this message:  realpath: ‘pkgconfig/..’: No such file or directory, perhaps you should add to PKG_CONFIG_PATH blahblah ... 

Is this supposed to happen?

Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-08-15 08:55:19 UTC

crossdev (perhaps over-zealously) cleans them up in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/crossdev.git/tree/wrappers/cross-pkg-config#n75

We should either allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH as is or have an equivalent variable.