[Xorg-driver-geode] current status of Geode X.org driver

[Martin-Éric Racine]

ke, 2013-10-02 kello 20:16 -0400, Gaetan Nadon kirjoitti:
> On 13-10-02 06:48 PM, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > ke, 2013-10-02 kello 14:36 -0400, Gaetan Nadon kirjoitti:
> >> On 13-10-02 10:54 AM, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >>>> You cannot have an empty m4 dir under git control. Some project put a
> >>>> dummy README file but I prefer putting a .gitignore there containing
> >>>> the libtool stuff to ignore:
> >>>>
> >>>> libtool
> >>>> libtool.m4
> >>>> ltmain.sh
> >>>> lt~obsolete.m4
> >>>> ltoptions.m4
> >>>> ltsugar.m4
> >>>> ltversion.m4
> >>> I agree, since those are copied at libtool run time.
> > Committed and pushed upstream.
> >
> > Since we were on the case of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]), I figured that I
> > might as well implement AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) as in this patch.
> > Does it make sense to you?
> I thought about this quite a while ago for the xorg modules. I came to
> the conclusion that it would provide no benefits. The files that would
> be placed in build-aux are just a small subset of the overall files in
> the root dir. It looks like no one else has seen a benefit either. There
> are over 200 modules in xorg, and none of them ever had it., or perhaps
> just one.
> 
> We basically use the root dir as a build-aux dir. Anything else goes in
> subdirs with a Makefile.am.

Sure enough, just as I thought that it would be safe to push this, I
noticed that our build macros for maintainer-clean are hard-wired for
removing autoconf stuff in (.) rather than use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. *sigh*

Martin-Éric