[PATCH xserver 0/5] Prepare makefiles for automake 2.0 mandatory subdir-objects

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:45:32 -0500
> From: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
> 
> This is great feedback. So links are not the ideal solution, in fact, no
> solution at all for many.
> 
> To my knowledge, this leaves us with the ideal solution I call "code
> re-factoring" to replace the cherry-picking of reusable source files
> which is exemplified by Jon Turney 's patch earlier in this thread.
> 
> I've CC Emil Velikov for Mesa who has a bug report for the same issue.
> 
> I am withdrawing this patch series and turning the problem over to the X
> server developers. There are 18 makefiles that are broken under automake
> 2.0 (warnings under 1.14).

Note that not all warnings are actually problems.  For example the
directories under hw/xfree86/os-support are largely subdir-objects
safe.  Probably enough to make sure hw/xfree86/os-support/shared gets
created in the build directory before entering the OS-specific
directory.  The same is probably true for os/strlcpy.c and
os/strlcat.c.  Although those files are defenitely candidates for a
libtool convenience library.