[PATCH] Change autogen.sh scripts to respect NOCONFIGURE

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 12-01-05 10:24 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:41:46 -0500, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 12-01-05 09:17 AM, 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
>>> $prefix/bin/xorg-autogen.sh or something, then all of the xorg autogen
>>> scripts can just be:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> exec xorg-autogen.sh "$@"
>>>
>>> This is effectively what we do with gnome-common, except some random
>>> modules still have hand-written ones.  Consistency - not yet our strong
>>> point =/
>>>
>> Seems like a brilliant idea. We can then make changes to xorg-autogen.sh
>> in the future without having to commit 240 patches. I'd be willing to
>> change all the xorg modules. There is an assumption that all modules
>> will be configured with the same BINDIR value, or that at least
>> xorg-autogen.sh in on the PATH. Looks reasonable.
>>
>> Could you create the patch for the util-macros package? Making sure it
>> works on a Bourne shell for all *BSD, MAC and Solaris OS. It will get
>> reviewed on the list and I'll give a good run. If all goes well, a new
>> version of xorg-macros will be published.
>>
>> Note that I will also have to update configure.ac in each module to
>> mandate the latest version of xorg-macros (as usual):
>> XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.17)
> Given how many people's first interaction with xorg-macros is
> configure.ac telling them that it's out of date/missing, I'm not excited
> about modules now just saying command not found instead of giving useful
> information.
The latest thought is to have the util-macros package version check in
the copy of autogen.sh in each module. This should not make it any more
unpleasant than the current situation.

Having read your comment, I would not make the XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.17)
change. In this transition period, older modules can be built with
autoreconf & configure from git using a <= 1.16 xorg-macros.