On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:50:08AM +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>I've been personally building the synaptics driver using a slightly modified
>XFree86 SDK and an Imakefile for a while using 4.3.0.  I've noticed that newer
>versions of the driver have got header files from XFree86 4.2.0 included in the
>tar ball.  Personally I'd prefer it if it was buildable against the SDK out of
>the box, as it protects against potential 
>
>Essentially as well as the imake magic to use the sdk out of tree all I've had
>to do is ship two extra header files: xisb.h from hw/xfree86/common and
>exevents.h from include/ (a patch against HEAD is attached).
>
>I'm not sure currently what drives the decision of what gets included in the
>SDK so I thought I'd raise the issue here for discussion.  

Anything that is part of (or required to use) the exported driver
interfaces should be included.

The SDK needs to be reworked to allow standalone driver builds by
default, and of course, tested against a wide range of drivers to
help ensure that all of the necessary pieces are included.

David
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David Dawes
developer/release engineer                      The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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