[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/3] package/meson: use specific BR variables for cross-compilation.conf

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:46:18 +0200
Norbert Lange <nolange79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This changes host/bin/pkgconf to host/bin/pkg-config, but that shouldn't
> > be a problem, given meson only uses this pkgconfig to find target
> > packages and not host packages (for that meson would look it up in a
> > native-file instead of a cross-file).  
> 
> Well, its used by all other build systems, so this makes more sense to me,
> otherwise, shouldn't PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY be changed to pkgconfig?

No, for Meson things are special, and it should really point to pkgconf
directly, and not to Buildroot's pkg-config wrapper around pkgconf.

Otherwise, what you're doing essentially reverts
4e0bc29993376613d200e892d491e31ea5a49622.

Thomas
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