[PATCH modular] Per-component configure options

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 01/18/12 01:37 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> (Please note that I'm purposefully being overly descriptive to help
> others on the list who might be new to the build.sh script)

And thanks for that - it helps me and hopefully others.

> By default build.sh will run through its internal list of all the
> modules of which it is aware and build all of them in the correct
> dependency order. Currently that list contains 246 modules on a Linux
> x86-ish machine.
>
> If you only want to build one specific module you can specify it with
> the "-o" option.

I understood all that - somehow I had either missed or forgotten about
the --modfile option though.

> With this patch I'm proposing an extension to the --modfile mechanism
> such that each line of the file still lists each of the modules you
> want built, but any remaining text on a given line (after a space)
> lists the options you would like passed to that module's
> configuration.

Sounds good.

> I'm curious to know what you are using as your custom build
> infrastructure (if you are at liberty to say).

Makefiles, lots & lots of Makefiles (evolved over many years,
starting actually pre-Xorg-modularization to build the other
components we needed for X, like freetype & fontconfig).

Our hg repo is publicly available, and our makefiles & patches
can also be browsed on the web at:

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/x-cons/x-s11-update-clone/

You'll note under open-src is a heirarchy much like Xorg's, though
with additional packages from other providers that are closely
related enough to X to be built by the Solaris X team instead of
one of our other groups.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System