[PATCH app/xkbcomp] Add xkboutputdir to xkbcomp.pc
Emil Velikov
emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 18:42:57 UTC 2017
On 8 March 2017 at 16:51, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 13:45 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
>
>> >
>> Right, so I was confused. The "compiled" xkb path and README.compiled
>> are provided by Xorg, but what's not obvious is - who is the user of
>> said path/files ?
>> This patch on its own does not make much sense, I'm afraid - we add a
>> "default" location and we have nobody of change and/or read it :-\
>
> I would like to read these values from xserver's configure.ac, among
> other reasons so we can drop the DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS nonsense in
> its Makefile.am. But I can't do that until and unless xkbcomp.pc
> actually _has_ this information.
>
Going through the xserver code (and a handful of searches) shows no
users of the path/files outside of the server itself.
If there are none - I'd just keep that information as internal, and
drop this patch. Alternatively we really want to enforce the actual
path in xkbcomp.
Otherwise it's a problem waiting to happen.
-Emil
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