Re: Unprefixed calls to ld and pkg-config

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 03:31:59PM -0500, Allen Webb wrote:
> My apologies if this is already fixed on top-of-tree, but in ncurses 6.3
> there are some direct calls to ld and pkg-config which could break cross
> compilation.
> 
> In ChromeOS we are downstream from Gentoo where I reported the issue here (
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/866398).
> 
> Since ncurses uses autoconf this isn't exactly a complete patch because
> configure is generated, but we replaced the unprefixed calls in the Gentoo
> ebuild process with:
> 
> sed -i -e 's/ld --verbose/${LD} --verbose/g' configure
> sed -i -e 's/pkg-config --version/${PKG_CONFIG} --version/g' misc/

thanks (I see where to improve this)

> gen-pkgconfig.in
> 
> Thanks,
> Allen

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