On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Adam Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We did, during modularisation, verify that the build system worked with > every package installed into its own prefix. This is admittedly an > insane thing to do.
I'm certainly not suggesting that every insane packaging scheme needs to be verified to work. Here's the case I have in mind, though: 1. Developer follows xorg wiki and installs X development modules in /opt/gfx. 2. Builds xterm and finds that the only way to use the fresh client libraries in /opt/gfx/lib is to pass --x-libraries. > If we wanted to preserve the ability to do that, > _AC_PATH_X_PKGCONFIG would need to know about more than just the x11 > package, but I'm fine with not caring about that case. Yeah, I just picked Xlib because that's what AC_PATH_X does already. There are certainly more interesting things you could do there. -- Dan
