xextproto and libXext cleanup

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:11:14PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 16/07/2009 04:56, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> Those of you watching xorg-announce or xorg-commit may have noticed that I
>> pushed the changes to xextproto and libXext.
>>
>> This commit series removed all client-side headers from xextproto and moved
>> them into libXext instead. Clients should not be affected by this other than
>> that the BuildRequires have changed.
>>
>> Most video drivers were affected (dpms.h ->  dpmsconst.h). The patches for
>> intel and radeonhd are in Keith's + Eric and Matthias inboxes. I've
>> pushed updates for the rest of the video drivers myself.
>>
>> The rule for header files are now:
>> Xfoo.h - library header file in libXext
>> foo.h - extension constants, xextproto
>> fooproto.h - protocol structures, xextproto
>>
>> for those headers where foo.h was already in use as client-side header (e.g.
>> sync.h, dpms.h) the naming is
>> foo.h - library header in libXext
>> fooconst.h - extension constants, xextproto
>> fooproto.h - protocol structures, xextproto
>>
>> If there are any build errors, please let me know. I'll be monitoring
>> tinderbox for the next few hours.
>
> This pattern doesn't seem to have been followed for MITMisc, as there is now
>
> MITMisc.h - library header in libXext
> mitmisc.h - extension constants, xextproto
> mitmiscproto.h - protocol structures, xextproto
>
> This fails on case-insensitive filesystems
> (case-insensitive filesystems are also fail, but that's a separate issue :-) )
>
> Attached are patches to rename the header in xextproto from mitmisc.h to  
> mitmiscconst.h, which I think is the way to fix this if I've understood 
> your mail correctly.
>
> Apologies for not noticing this sooner.

merged and pushed. I forgot that somewhere, somewhen, someone thought that
case-insensitive files systems are a good idea. Oh, how we laughed.

thanks for the patch, please verify that everything works correcly.

Cheers,
  Peter