xserver build failling AFTER it works ??

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 09:28 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:
> >
> > The comment about it being "no official script other than build.sh" strikes me
> > as funny ... something like asking a bank robber if they like stealing, and
> > having them answer "no, of course not ... well, excepting this robbery, of
> > course".  That's somewhat of an extreme simile, sorry, it's the only one that
> > ocurred to me at the moment.  I am talking about replacing build.sh, so saying
> > "we don't do that, except for build.sh" is just a bit on the droll side.  I
> > mean, I'm /talking/ /about/ replacing build.sh with a far better tool, one that
> > would be far simpler to fix if it got broken, and be able to do it without
> > making a single change in your modularization strategy..
> 
> I don't see what's so hard to understand. build.sh _is_ the official
> script. It has shortcomings and it could use somebody fixing those
> shortcomings. Or, like Daniel and Peter both have said, if you think a
> make-based solution would be better, send it in. You keep saying how
> much better a make-based build would be and how you would work on it.
> No one has told you not to do that.

FWIW, there already is a make based build system:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10511

Not sure about its current status though.


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