[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.99.2

[Stephan Raue]

Zitat von Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Stephan Raue  
> <mailinglists at openelec.tv> wrote:
>> Zitat von Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Stephan Raue <mailinglists at openelec.tv>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> when i am crosscompiling xorg-server i get an error from configure:
>>>> checking for /etc/X11/fontpath.d... configure: error: cannot check for
>>>> file existence when cross compiling
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to make this easyer for crosscompiling without patching
>>>> configure.ac and configure in an release?
>>>
>>> That's just the way AC_CHECK_FILE works. Since you're cross-compiling,
>>> it doesn't think it's appropriate to check for files on the build
>>> system to determine behavior. It continues, right? It should just give
>>> you the fallback behavior. If you want to specify the fontpath, use
>>> --with-default-font-path.
>>
>> no it doesnt continue, and i have already set --with-default-font-path ...
>
> It looks like there's multiple issues with this approach, but the
> attached should fix the cross compiling problem. We also need to
> address the fact the file test won't resolve all the way when
> $sysconfdir is not specified on the command line. E.g.,
> sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc by default, and then test -r
> "${sysconfdir}/X11/fontpath.d" fails:
>
> checking for ${prefix}/etc/X11/fontpath.d... no
>
> --
> Dan
>

with this patch configure doesnt stop anymore, thank you

Stephan


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