Re: [PATCH] config: set pkgconfig for ppc64le

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

13/07/2022 09:39, Ali Alnubani:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:11 PM
> > To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: set pkgconfig for ppc64le
> > 
> > + PPC maintainer
> > 
> > 07/07/2022 13:41, Ali Alnubani:
> > > Meson fails to detect the dependencies that are included
> > > in PKG_CONFIG_PATH and built for ppc64le if binaries.pkgconfig
> > > is not set in the ppc64le cross-file for Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > This fixes the issue by setting binaries.pkgconfig to the
> > > binary provided by the package 'pkg-config-powerpc64le-linux-gnu'.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > > ---
> > >  config/ppc/ppc64le-power8-linux-gcc-ubuntu | 1 +
> > 
> > Why not adding the same for ppc64le-power8-linux-gcc?
> > 
> > > +pkgconfig = 'powerpc64le-linux-gnu-pkg-config'
> 
> I didn't find any operating systems that distribute the powerpc64le cross-compiler with the binary names found in config/ppc/ppc64le-power8-linux-gcc.
> Both Ubuntu and Fedora use the -gnu suffix. Fedora doesn't seem to have a pkg-config binary for powerpc64le though.

So how does it work on Fedora?