Official method for determining modular X module path?

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Thu Dec 1 11:20:25 PST 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:13:28AM -0800, Andy Ritger wrote:
> I think the moduledir variable was discussed on IRC, and a recent
> Gentoo install defines moduledir, but a user reported that it is
> not defined on Fedora Core 5 RC1.  Does the moduledir definition
> in the pkgconfig *.pc files come from the Xorg modular build, or is
> that something distribution maintainers will need to handle manually?
> 
> I'm nervous that this could be the kind of thing that would be easy
> for a distro to overlook, and would only be exposed when someone
> tried to install a 3rd party driver.

It depends from distribution to distribution.  For Ubuntu and Debian,
this will only be installed if you install xserver-xorg-dev, which also
installs all the development headers.
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