#2119: Wrong datadir for xorg 7.1 : -> --datadir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib"
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Reporter: EdB | Owner: [email protected]
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.2
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Meant to comment last night. I've really been looking closely at this and
I think dropping the --datadir switch would work. At 7.0, some of the
autotools weren't fixed up right, so this made sense. But now, all the
right built in paths are fixed. An the autoconf macros going into
${libdir} is bad.
Above I expressed a concern about the app-defaults directory. Turns out
that X will search through a whole slew of directories to find these
settings. This is defined in libXt. Do strings on libXt, and after a while
you'll find the search path with a bunch of tokens in it. The default path
it tells other packages about (if they want to query) is ${datadir}/X11
/app-defaults. It's in pkgconfig/xt.pc. But, that doesn't matter as it
will look in /etc/X11, /usr/lib/X11, etc.
Everything else like the xkb database, rgb settings, stuff that the
xserver needs to know about, I think these all take the correct path by
default now, which is in ${datadir}/X11.
The fonts that I checked go to ${libdir}/X11. This is also the default
path in the xserver. Also checked libXfont, and it expects the font
encodings to be in ${libdir}/X11/fonts/encodings. Checked libfontenc and
encodings. The paths defined there are ${libdir}/X11/fonts/encodings.
Checked font-alias and font-misc-misc. They both expect the fonts in
${libdir}/X11/fonts.
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