Proposed SIG: Windows MinGW cross-compiler SIG

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:09:05PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> I've just read your draft packaging guidelines and I think there also
> should be a pkg-config specific part. A lot of libraries use pkg-config
> nowadays. In order to prevent autoconf/configure scripts from using the
> host system headers and libraries, some additional preparation is
> required.
[...]

Yes, I think you're right about this.  A good test case will be
libvirt because at the moment the configure script in libvirt doesn't
find the correct libxml2.  (It finds the system libxml2, not the MinGW
one).

Rich.

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