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authorXavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com>2020-05-07 16:58:22 -0400
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ConfigToolDependency: Don't fallback to system tool when cross compiling
The system tool is always the wrong thing to use and cause hard to debug issues when trying to link system libraries with cross built binaries. The ExternalDependency base class already had a method to deal with this, used by PkgConfigDependency and QtBaseDependency, so it should make things more consistent.
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+## Config tool based dependencies no longer search PATH for cross compiling
+
+Before 0.55.0 config tool based dependencies (llvm-config, cups-config, etc),
+would search system $PATH if they weren't defined in the cross file. This has
+been a source of bugs and has been deprecated. It is now removed, config tool
+binaries must be specified in the cross file now or the dependency will not
+be found.