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

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 13-10-03 03:00 AM, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 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*
BTW, the default value for of AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is ".".
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> Martin-Éric
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