[PATCH 09/10] xf86-input-acecad: Simplify value of $sdkdir.

[Paulo César Pereira de Andrade]

Dan Nicholson wrote:

>>>>  When setting the variable value using `pkg-config --variable`
>>>> it causes make distcheck to fail, and needing to circunvent the
>>>> problem by adding a configure option.
>>>
>>> If you want to make this change, then do it in the other drivers, too.
>>
>>  That's why this patch was a "proposed pattern" for changes in
>> other packages. (But I am posting only this one, don't be afraid
>> of having 1k patches in your inbox by tomorrow :-))
>
> But it's buried in the middle of a set of acecad janitor patches. I
> also wasn't implying that you should post patches for every driver
> yet. What I meant was to send an email describing how you want to

  This was somewhat of an "evolutive" approach.
o First were the patches adding things like --with-sdkdir=<pathname>,
  that would fix the "make distcheck" issue.
o After it was (what I also first suggested for "hardcoding"
  --app-defaults-dir) to assume none wants to modify the "sufix"
  of a pathname, so $includedir/xorg would be safe, as none
  should want to use $includedir/<othername>.
o And now it is an even "untested" :-) change to modify
  xorg-server.m4, add version check to it, and extra macros, for
  these issues.

  xorg-server.pc sets:
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
moduledir=${exec_prefix}/lib/xorg/modules
sdkdir=${prefix}/include/xorg

  Maybe there could be a way to have more "friendly" integration of
automake and pkg-config, but in the sample macro for xorg-server.m4
I suggested in the previous email, it would "just" be required to
have it match xorg-server.pc for moduledir and sdkdir.

> change the drivers to just install to $includedir/xorg and
> $libdir/xorg/modules instead of whatever they're doing now. Then, if
> no one has any issues with that, you can just push 50 patches.

  You can consider this patch just a last attempt to help :-)
I cannot push patches anymore anyway. Given that I did not
have much success on working more closely with xorg people, I
am just unsubscribing from xorg mailing lists.

Paulo