[PATCH xserver] meson: Add xkb_bin_dir option

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 11 October 2017 at 23:03, Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com> wrote:
> Now that we can actually configure all of the directories xkb uses for
> finding things, we can (finally, but only with meson) finally make it so
> that with the correct meson configuration the Xserver will "just work"
> without any additional changes to the installation prefix after
> building.
>
> For the people like me who have since scripted this part out of their
> build process and forgotten about it, building and installing the X
> server into a non-standard prefix has always required the following (or
> something else that makes sure that X has a valid xkbcomp configuration)
> commands be run right after doing the installation:
>
>         # start in root of prefix you installed X to
>         mkdir -pv share/X11/xkb/rules
>         ln -s /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev share/X11/xkb/rules/
>         rm -f bin/xkbcomp
>         ln -s /usr/bin/xkbcomp bin/
>
> The one last piece of getting rid of this post-install junk is making
> sure that we can control the directory that X uses for finding the
> xkbcomp binary from meson so we can point it at the system provided
> xkbcomp (/usr/bin/xkbcomp or similar). So, this patch adds a
> configuration option for controlling this called xkb_bin_dir.

We really should've made xkbcomp ship a pkg-config file.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>

Cheers,
Daniel