[PATCH modular] build.sh: remove USE_XCB conditional

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Jan 31 21:42:50 PST 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:06:03PM -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:48 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gaetan,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:24:51 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > 
> > > The configure --with-xcb option does not exist on xserver.
> > > 
> > I'm not sure what xserver has to do with this.  This option allows to
> > build Xlib without libxcb, AFAIK, it doesn't change anything for the
> > server.  I'm not saying removing it is a bad idea, but this commit
> > message doesn't seem to make sense.
> > 
> 
> You are right, silly mistake on my part. I have no reasons to remove it
> unless I am told it isn't used by anyone. I thought xcb was always used
> now a day, no this was redundant.

libX11 can still be built with xcb and should still work in that case. Not
sure who does it, but until that option is removed from libX11 it may make
more sense to leave the build option in here.

Cheers,
  Peter


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