[yocto] pkg-config not found

[Mark Hawthorne]

I figured out the problem. The call to AX_PTHREAD() was breaking
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG. I don't understand why, but it works once I remove
that line.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:24 PM Mark Hawthorne <markhawthorne172 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I added the lines you suggested and it indicates that PKG_CONFIG is not
> set. What would cause this to fail in the bitbake environment? It works for
> other packages such as pixman.
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 6:38 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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