Re: [PATCH] teach ncurses-config about sysroot

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday, August 26, 2010 16:26:18 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 26, 2010 16:12:29 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > * Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > it is a niche feature.  SYSROOT isnt really standard by any means.
> > > 
> > > Well, it's required anywhere you want to build cleanly for a
> > > target system not equal to the running one. (not just crossing
> > > between archs or os'es).
> > 
> > no, it really isnt
> 
> So you prefer tweaking each single package to use the proper pathes,
> to really make sure that threre's no mixups w/ the running system ?

try reading the whole thread.  adding $SYSROOT to ncurses-config is *exactly* 
what you're indicating here is a bad idea -- "tweaking each single package".  
instead, the sane solution is what we implemented in Gentoo long ago -- a 
single tool that automatically wraps all *-config scripts and fixes their 
output.  no need to carry custom patches or hassle random upstreams (assuming 
they're even still alive).
-mike

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