<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, There are 41 driver modules with the line: <BLOCKQUOTE> <TT>sdkdir=$(pkg-config --variable=sdkdir xorg-server)</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> Following up on review <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-November/003711.html">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-November/003711.html</A> <BLOCKQUOTE> <TT>From Dan Nicholson:</TT> <TT>This should be</TT> <TT>sdkdir=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=sdkdir xorg-server`</TT> <TT>1. The user may need to use a specific pkg-config or pass custom</TT> <TT>arguments to it. Think multiarch or cross-compiling scenarios.</TT> <TT>2. Backticks (``) are supported by all shells while $() command</TT> <TT>substitution is for strictly POSIX conforming shells. We don't need to</TT> <TT>limit ourselves to that subset.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> There are 12 drivers who are effectively using this line: <BLOCKQUOTE> <TT>joystick, synaptics, glint, </TT><TT>intel,</TT><TT> mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, xgi, xgixp</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> I intend to apply this patch to all 12 of them. Other patches for the remainder modules will follow. The reference patch is from input-synaptics </BODY> </HTML>