[debian-mysql] Bug#920365: mariadb_config: improve cross compilation support

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Sergei,

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 07:29:02PM +0200, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> So, there's nothing for us (upstream) to do here?

Correct, I think this is not an upstream issue. It's a packaging issue.

The only thing that mariadb upstream could do here is officially
deprecate mariadb_config. I'm not sure whether you want that though.

> pkg-config just works and you already have the script?

Yeah, I'm asking for integrating it into the Debian package. The Debian
package could replace the shipped mariadb_config ELF executable with the
generated shell script. Doing so would make a number of downstream
packages that don't use pkg-config cross buildable.

Helmut