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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-CN link=blue vlink=purple style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I¡¯m building xorg in a local directory $HOME/xorg, then all libraries will go to $HOME/xorg/lib,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>And all the configure files will go to $HOME/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/, such as the 10-evdev.conf.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My question is, when I run this local Xorg it will not search the configure file at the local configure directory:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>$HOME/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Instead, it searches the system¡¯s xorg configuration file at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So you can see, when I run the new Xserver, it will load the old configuration files rather than the correct files<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Installed at local configuration directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I traced into the source code, and found the reason is as below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the macro SYS_CONFIGDIRPATH¡¯s defined as "/usr/share/X11/%X," "%D/X11/%X", <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>And it will be used to find the system config path. And the finding process is at function OpenConfigDir(), the finding mechanism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>is to scan the SYS_CONFIGDIRPATH from left to right, and if it successfully find a directory, then it stop finding next. As my system has<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>a /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, it stop to find the next path which is pointing to my local directory and which is the one should be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>used here IMHO. As all the building process in my local building repository will install configuration files into local files rather than<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I know there may be many duplicate config files in these two directories, so we have to pick one and discard the other one. In my<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>opinion, the local directory should be higher priority. Otherwise, how can we ensure we use the correct file when we build a new<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>xserver which has difference config files</span><span style='font-family:ËÎÌå'>£¿</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Any suggestion?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>