[PATCH xaw3d 0/2] Xaw3d build system

Javier Pello javier.pello at urjc.es
Mon May 6 04:08:36 PDT 2013


I am attaching a couple of patches to the Xaw3d build system.

The first patch deals with a bug when running configure. Xaw3d has
several optional features (multiplane bitmaps, gray stipples, arrow
scrollbars), disabled by default, that can be selected at configure
time via --enable-foo switches. However, if you pass an explicit
--disable-foo switch, configure will actually *enable* the feature,
which, in my opinion, breaks the principle of least astonishment.
The first patch corrects this.

The second patch restores recording of such compilation options in
Xaw3dP.h. In 1.5, features selected at configure time (multiplane
bitmaps, etc.) were recorded as defines in Xaw3dP.h, so packages
compiling against Xaw3d could check those defines by including
Xaw3dP.h to see what features were enabled. This has now changed,
and, as I understand it, detection of optional features should be
done by the additional -Dfoo flags reported by `pkgconfig --cflags
xaw3d`. This, however, breaks compilation of old packages against
version 1.6, since they no longer find the defines where they expect
them to be (in Xaw3dP.h), and know nothing about a .pc file. It would
be nice (and easy) to keep backwards API compatibility for those old
packages by restoring the defines in Xaw3dP.h.

Javier Pello (2):
  Fix --enable-feature options in configure
  Restore recording of build options in Xaw3dP.h

 .gitignore                                  |  1 +
 configure.ac                                | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 include/Makefile.am                         |  4 +++-
 include/X11/Xaw3d/{Xaw3dP.h => Xaw3dP.h.in} |  8 ++++----
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 rename include/X11/Xaw3d/{Xaw3dP.h => Xaw3dP.h.in} (94%)

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