Xlib: Fixes for util/makekeys

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 15:01 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:44:13PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > > Next time makekeys needs changing, I'd suggest rewriting it in Perl
> > > or Python right from the start.
> > 
> > Please don't use either. There are currently two cases where Perl is
> > required by modular Xorg and I have submitted patches to replace the
> > first program with a small C program and the second with an awk script.
> > I'm quite happy that xorg has a relatively small dependency chain and
> > Perl or Python would be a strong regression.
> 
> Speaking as someone who works for a company whose primary product is
> cross-compiled, replacing tools like makekeys with Perl or Python
> scripts makes life a lot easier.  Generally we have to build packages
> like this twice (once natively to build the tools, then again for the
> target architecture), but you really don't want to see the hack in
> libx11 to cross-build it in one step...

Can you comment on the patches I send two weeks ago to do exactly that
please? :-) I mentioned awk for a reason -- it is one of those basically
always present tools a lot of developers forget about.

Joerg