[PATCH][vmware] build: add explicit option to enable/disable VMWGFX

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Fri Sep 13 01:08:22 PDT 2013


On 13 September 2013 06:01, Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I'm reading this correctly this will cause the build to fail if
> you don't give it the disable flag if xatracker is missing?
> I'm on the fence if we want this, is this a problem you have
> run into?

Correct, defaults to enabled and will fail if the dependencies are not
present.  If required I could add an "auto" option alongside the
explicit on and off options.

As a best practise our metadistro (Yocto Project) avoids
auto-detection because it leads to undeterministic builds: one day the
build order changes and if you forgot an explicit dependency, the
compilation changes.

Ross


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