pkg-config search path problems

Question

This shell session says it all for me:

root@debianvm:/home/matt# echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/lib/pkgconfig
root@debianvm:/home/matt# ls $PKG_CONFIG_PATH | grep libusb-1.0
libusb-1.0.pc
root@debianvm:/home/matt# pkg-config libusb-1.0 --cflags
Package libusb-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libusb-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libusb-1.0' found

Any ideas? Looks to me like the pkg-config man page lies.

Answer 1

I figured it out. This VM was configured to be a cross-build environment before I knew much, and I added the cross-build tools to the PATH. The stripped-down ARM version of pkg-config works differently, I guess it has a different way of finding the .pc files. Still working on that. But my main problem was solved by removing the cross toolchain from the path, so the x86 pkg-config is being looked at.