On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:41:46 -0500, Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca> wrote: > On 12-01-05 09:17 AM, Colin Walters wrote: > > Hi Gaetan, > > > > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:48 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > > > >> No objections in principle, the doc is convincing. > >> > >> We are talking about 240 modules here. A sizable piece of work. > > Thanks; any suggestions on how to proceed? I don't have commit > > privileges to the xorg repositories (and no need to get them for such a > > trivial patch), should I go through individual maintainers or should > > someone Just Do It? > > > > One thing we might want to consider before we change all 240 modules is > > instead changing xorg-macros to install its autogen.sh as > > $prefix/bin/xorg-autogen.sh or something, then all of the xorg autogen > > scripts can just be: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec xorg-autogen.sh "$@" > > > > This is effectively what we do with gnome-common, except some random > > modules still have hand-written ones. Consistency - not yet our strong > > point =/ > > > > Seems like a brilliant idea. We can then make changes to xorg-autogen.sh > in the future without having to commit 240 patches. I'd be willing to > change all the xorg modules. There is an assumption that all modules > will be configured with the same BINDIR value, or that at least > xorg-autogen.sh in on the PATH. Looks reasonable. > > Could you create the patch for the util-macros package? Making sure it > works on a Bourne shell for all *BSD, MAC and Solaris OS. It will get > reviewed on the list and I'll give a good run. If all goes well, a new > version of xorg-macros will be published. > > Note that I will also have to update configure.ac in each module to > mandate the latest version of xorg-macros (as usual): > XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.17)
Given how many people's first interaction with xorg-macros is configure.ac telling them that it's out of date/missing, I'm not excited about modules now just saying command not found instead of giving useful information.
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