[PATCH video-vmware] config: include saa and vmwgfx subdirs in the tarball

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

----- Original Message -----
> On 12-03-12 03:12 PM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Use AM_CONDITIONAL. Automake knows what to distribute.
> >> It needs to be able to navigate down the subdirs to find what
> >> needs to be included in the tarball.
> >>
> >> To test reliably, create a tarball and expand it into a separate
> >> directory and build with xatracker. Distcheck will not detect
> >> missing code when such code is configured not to build.
> >>
> >> The content of a tarball *must* always be identical, regardless
> >> of the configuration options used or on which platform it was
> >> configured.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
> > Thanks, I had just done a simpler patch, but less correct then
> > yours, so I'll rather use this.
> >
> > Do we really need to do the conditional in all the
> > Makefile.am's according to the link below that isn't needed
> > and it will figure out DIST_SUBDIRS correctly?
> 
> No, not really. Like any coding job, there are different ways of
> doing it with different pros and cons. These are some of the
> experiences I had which influence my choices:
> 
> Developers often end-up in a Makefile without having gone through
> configure.ac, hence they don't know  statements in there that might
> affect the Makefile. They would not even notice that vmwglx is
> conditionally compiled. One may invoke make from the vmwglx subdir on
> a system that does not have the xatracker and waste time chasing
> ghost problems. It's confusing when 'make' does not behave the same
> when invoked from subdirs.
> 
> The /src makefile still needs a conditional. It can be done through
> configure.ac but that increases this file complexity.
> 
> I can see cases where a conditional SUBDIRS would be preferable. Over
> time you get used to do it one way over the other. There is really
> nothing wrong, feel free to change it.

Ok, thanks, it was just that the change looked a lot bigger then it
needed to be.

> 
> BTW, saa can always be built, right? That would help finding compiler
> errors and be subject to distcheck verification. That would leave us
> with just the vmwglx subdir to be conditionally skipped.
> 

I think SAA uses the xatracker to do the acceleration.

> Also, if you feel like it, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE does not really need to
> be in a condition. It's harmless and can go with other AC_
> statements at the top in the "Initialize Autoconf" section.

Ok, can you please respin the patch with that change, you can leave
the SUBDIRS alone, I have no real strong feelings either way.

Thanks again.

Cheers, Jakob.