Re: [PATCH v2] config: Allow kernel installation packaging to override pkg-config

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 13:48:01 -0800
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm ok with this patch; a quick grep though shows a few more open
> coded instances of pkg-config.  Should we fix those up, too? i.e.
> 
> certs/Makefile:92:HOSTCFLAGS_extract-cert.o = $(shell pkg-config
> --cflags libcrypto 2> /dev/null)
> certs/Makefile:93:HOSTLDLIBS_extract-cert = $(shell pkg-config --libs
> libcrypto 2> /dev/null || echo -lcrypto)
> scripts/kconfig/gconf-cfg.sh

For this patch set, the above is probably good enough to do (and test
with a make allmodconfig).

> tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> tools/ in general

I would hold off on doing tools for a separate patch. With the
exception of objtool most of tools is not needed for the build process.

-- Steve