[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/36] package/sdl: add symlink to sdl-config

On 08/13/12 12:57, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

Le Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:53:50 +0200,
"Yann E. MORIN"[off-list ref]  a ?crit :

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 SDL installs a script-based sdl-config in the sysroot, but some
 packages (eg. QEMU) needs it to be either:
    - prefixed with the cross-prefix
    - in the PATH

 So, as sdl-config is a script, and although it is installed in
 the sysroot, it can be run on the host.

Well, that's typically not how we handle this problem. In general, we
pass the complete location of the<foo>-config script to
the ./configure script of the package that needs it. I would prefer if
we could use this solution everywhere instead of having a different
solution in different places for the same problem.

  Although I fully agree with using the same pattern everywhere, I think the
pattern is wrong here.  Having a xxx-config script is supposed to make it
easy to discover a package; if you have to point to it explicitly in the
package.mk using it, that kind of defeats the purpose.

  Of course, even so it is still shaky.  If the xxx-config has to be looked up
from the PATH, we risk picking up /usr/bin/xxx-config...  In an ideal world,
they'd all be using pkg-config...  But in an ideal work we probably wouldn't
even need buildroot :-)

  Regards,
  Arnout
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