Re: [PATCH v4 01/31] tools: generate pkg-config files from make variables

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 05:07:17PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> For each library built two variants of pkg-config files are created
> from a per-library template: an "official" one for installation on
> the user's system, and one used for building internal tools, like e.g.
> qemu.
> 
> Instead of the template which is looking very similar for all libraries
> generate the pkg-config files directly from make variables.
> 
> This will reduce the need to specify some pkg-config file entries in
> the templates, as the contents can easily be generated from available
> data (e.g. "Version:" and "Requires.private:" entries).
> 
> Especially the variant used for building internal tools needs to gain
> additional runtime link parameters for the internally used libraries,
> as otherwise those won't be found by the users (e.g. qemu).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Do you have the new generated files handy so that I can eyeball them a
bit?

If you don't already have them, I can find some time to apply this patch
to generate them myself.

Wei.