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

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:42 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

SGTM

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers