[PATCH] util-macros: Addition of a meta data file xorg-macros.pc.in used by XORG_INSTALL

[Carl Worth]

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:14:36 -0800, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Carl Worth wrote:
> > My big concern is with making the build even more fragile than it
> > already is. We already have lots of documentation teaching people to add
> > ${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH and I've not ever seen
> > documentation telling people to add ${prefix}/share/pkgconfig as
> > well. So the change makes a lot of existing instructions stop working.
> 
> Welcome to last month.   All the tinderboxes & build scripts had to be
> updated when this change hit libxtrans, since otherwise libX11 & xserver
> stopped building.

Yes, that's madness. How did people allow that to go through?

Can we stop it now?

-Carl
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