When cross-compiling, pkg.m4 will set the PKG_CONFIG variable
to a suitable pkg-config executable, which might be a
host-architecture-prefixed name like aarch64-linux-gnu-pkg-config. This
ensures that we will use a suitable search path that is suitable for
the host architecture (the machine we are compiling for) rather than
the build architecture (the machine we are compiling on) to find
dependency libraries like SDL. When using pkg-config as a substitute
for sdl2-config, we will similarly need to use the
host-architecture-prefixed pkg-config.
Setting the PKG_CONFIG environment variable is also the canonical way to
request that a different pkg-config implementation be used, if that
becomes necessary for some reason.
Co-authored-by: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1059749
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed
to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics
hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software,
emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog
and many Humble Bundle games.
More extensive documentation is available in the docs directory, starting
with README.md
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