Subject: Re: bug#55373: efibootmgr fails to cross-compile: it looks for 'pkg-config' instead of 'TARGET-pkg-config'
From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
To: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], denis 'gnutoo' carikli <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 16:01:36 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 07:23:41PM +0200, Maxime Devos wrote:
> X-Debbugs-CC: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <[email-masked]>
> 
> Title says it all.
> 
> Also see the following excerpt from the build log:
> 
> > make -f /tmp/guix-build-efibootmgr-17.drv-0/source/Make.deps deps SOURCES="efibootmgr.c efi.c unparse_path.c" SUBDIR_CFLAGS="-I/tmp/guix-build-efibootmgr-17.drv-0/source/src/include"
> > /gnu/store/4y5m9lb8k3qkb1y9m02sw9w9a6hacd16-bash-minimal-5.1.8/bin/sh: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
> 
> Looks like PKG_CONFIG needs to be added to #:make-flags:
> <https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/blob/892cb7444ce6f2cded9c67ff2ab3ef35a4c810c8/Make.rules#L64>.
> 
> Maybe AR and CC as well.
> 

I also needed to adjust efivar so it would refer to the correct gcc when
cross-compiling. Anyway, this should now be fixed.

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