Re: [poky] [PATCH] fix: use pkgconf instead of pkg-config

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM Frederik Brændstrup via
lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As a preface, I know this is probably a bit of an aggressive move. But
> pkg-config doesn't build on newer GCC and Clang compilers due to a lot
> of hardening. The old K&R style C code is deprecated and cannot compile
> in the gcc default mode.
>
> pkgconf is a modern and compatible (although not necessarily bug
> compatible) alternative that is maintained, and has more features
> that are not available in the old pkg-config. I've been using this patch
> for a while now, and it has worked flawlessly.
>

This is bold and worth consideration, some other distros e.g.
archlinux use it too however
we need to soak it a bit more for yocto because its not battle tested
for cross-compiled systems.
Yoe distro defaulted to it in 2018 [1] for a while but some packages
e.g. chromium/firefox
builds were not happy. Perhaps things have improved overtime.

[1] https://github.com/YoeDistro/yoe-distro/blob/master/sources/meta-yoe/conf/distro/yoe.inc#L126-L129

> Signed-off-by: Frede Braendstrup <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/classes-recipe/pkgconfig.bbclass | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/pkgconfig.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/pkgconfig.bbclass
> index 1e1f3824dd..55847fb705 100644
> --- a/meta/classes-recipe/pkgconfig.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/pkgconfig.bbclass
> @@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
>  #
>
> -DEPENDS:prepend = "pkgconfig-native "
> +DEPENDS:prepend = "pkgconf-native "
>
> --
> 2.50.1
>
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