2010/8/24 Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 12:56 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Could just use dri.pc for the default value of the option, rather than > removing it altogether? > > Yes. I think the author of the bug report wishes to also remove the option > as it is no longer useful. > > This is an opportunity for me to get the real story being this type of > option. There are many in the server but also in other modules. It looks to > me that in the past there were no pkg-config infrastructure (or it was not > used or not mature) so there had to be an option for every directory a > module needed to know. > > Once a directory is published through pkg-config, there is no longer a need > to ask the user for its value. I suspect it is even wrong to allow the user > to specify one as there cannot be 2 directories for the same stuff.
I added the option in c3342c8000f6d2bfb61e2cf95e028d11b59698fa in 2004. At the time we didn't have dri.pc. I don't see a reason to keep it now. Kristian _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
