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On 2 November 2016 at 11:42, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> Okay, I thought that might be the case. That's the situation on Gentoo too.
>
> Secondly, why the pkg-config abstraction? When is it not called
> pkg-config and when is it not in PATH?

On exherbo, everything (including the main arch) is cross compiled, so
unprefixed
toolchain is blacklisted, we use e.g. x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config
Supporting PKG_CONFIG env var seems like something quite common, as that(s
how the pkg-config autotools integration works, for example.