2015-10-15 18:36 GMT+03:00 Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com>: > On 10/15/2015 12:24 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:21:31 -0700 >> Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It seems like /usr/bin/Xwayland is hard-coded into xwayland.so. This >>> makes it not run local installed versions of Xwayland. I could not get X >>> programs to work under wayland without doing "sudo ln -s >>> ~/install/bin/Xwayland /usr/bin". >>> >>> I noticed this because I had no /usr/bin/Xwayland, but I am concerned >>> that if it really is installed, a developer will not realize they are >>> not running their locally installed copy. >>> >>> There is a configure option --with-xserver-path but it would help if >>> --prefix worked as a default (ie $prefix/bin/Xwayland). >> >> >> That would be a wrong default for me now, while it would have been the >> right default earlier this year. Either way, someone loses. That's why >> there is --with-xserver-path. >> >>> Another possible solution is to use an environment variable ($XWAYLAND >>> maybe?) as the name of the program. >>> >>> Maybe a better question is why the path is hard-coded, rather than it >>> searching the path for this? >> >> >> There is also a weston.ini option for the Xwayland path, see 'man >> weston.ini'. > > > The fact that it finds my xwayland.so file in ~/install, but cannot find the > Xwayland executable in ~/install bothers me a lot, however. It obviously > figured out where xwayland.so is from the --prefix arg to configure and this > really should match.
No, the xwayland.so is a part of weston, Xwayland is an entirely separate binary coming from an entirely separate project, so i really don't think weston should assume it is in the same prefix as itself. > > PS: weston.ini option is like this: > > [xwayland] > path=myhome/install/bin/Xwayland > > > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel