On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 17:35 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > To me, the only reason is that since you can't override the path at > runtime either, there's no way to set a custom path to the modules. > Maybe that's more of a runtime concern, though. > > A custom path for dri would be a path that is different from the path where > the mesa dri drivers are installed (mesa default $libdir/dri). Would that > even work and > why would a system builder do that? > > This case would make jurisprudence in similar situations.
Not so much a system builder, but a developer or someone debugging a problem that wants to point at an alternate set of drivers. I don't think the configure option helps as much as a xorg.conf option, though. -- Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
