development packages and multilib

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:07:40AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> (Yes, kde4-config is an ELF binary, not a script.)

This could be a barrier to cross-compilation.

Background (I'm sure Kevin knows this ...):

It's generally a good idea for *-config programs to be scripts,
because you need to run them during the build process, and that fails
if it's a native program and you're cross-compiling.  The exception is
pkg-config, since it can be configured to do the right thing by
setting some environment variables.

Rich.

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