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

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:08:22 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:

> 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.
> 
That makes sense for distros, but I think autodetection should still be
the default.

Cheers,
Julien