[PATCH] Change autogen.sh scripts to respect NOCONFIGURE
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Thu Jan 5 13:37:32 PST 2012
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 09:17:20 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi Gaetan,
>
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:48 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>
> > No objections in principle, the doc is convincing.
> >
> > We are talking about 240 modules here. A sizable piece of work.
>
> Thanks; any suggestions on how to proceed? I don't have commit
> privileges to the xorg repositories (and no need to get them for such a
> trivial patch), should I go through individual maintainers or should
> someone Just Do It?
>
> One thing we might want to consider before we change all 240 modules is
> instead changing xorg-macros to install its autogen.sh as
> $prefix/bin/xorg-autogen.sh or something, then all of the xorg autogen
> scripts can just be:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec xorg-autogen.sh "$@"
>
If you do something like that please either don't make it install in the
system $PATH or drop the .sh suffix.
Cheers,
Julien
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