[yocto] pkg-config not found

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:29 PM Mark Hawthorne
<markhawthorne172 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Khem,
>
> I found a recipe that you made a few years ago where you addressed this problem:
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.12.bb
>
> You solved it by exporting PKG_CONFIG
>
> export PKG_CONFIG = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/pkg-config"
>
> This seems like it may be the incorrect way to do it and there needs to be an update in the configure.ac file instead?

in configure.ac you can add something like this

PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
if test -z "$PKG_CONFIG"; then
  AC_MSG_WARN([Cannot find pkg-config, make sure it is installed in your PATH])
fi

>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:44 PM Mark Hawthorne <markhawthorne172 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No, it did not help
>>
>> It appears from the config.log file that the PKG_CONFIG variable never gets set. I'm sorting through the bbclass files to figure out why this is not getting set...
>>
>> PKG_CONFIG=''
>> PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR='/home/mark/Documents/tisdk/build/arago-tmp-external-arm-toolchain/work/armv7at2hf-neon-linux-gnueabi/myprogram/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/pkgconfig'
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/home/mark/Documents/tisdk/build/arago-tmp-external-arm-toolchain/work/armv7at2hf-neon-linux-gnueabi/myprogram/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/home/mark/Documents/tisdk/build/arago-tmp-external-arm-toolchain/work/armv7at2hf-neon-linux-gnueabi/myprogram/1.0-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/share/pkgconfig'
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:22 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:00 PM Mark Hawthorne
>>> <markhawthorne172 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thank you. I have fixed this issue but the original pkg-config error still persists.
>>> >
>>>
>>> do a clean build after above change
>>>
>>> bitbake -ccleanall <your-recipe>
>>> bitbake <your-recipe>
>>>
>>> does that help ?
>>>
>>> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:41 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 03:06:25PM -0600, Mark Hawthorne wrote:
>>> >> >...
>>> >> > DEPENDS_${PN} = "libpng freetype glm libegl libgles2 libspatialite"
>>> >> >...
>>> >>
>>> >> DEPENDS, not DEPENDS_${PN}
>>> >>
>>> >> cu
>>> >> Adrian
>>> >>
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