On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 10:18 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > The latest thought is to have the util-macros package version check in > the copy of autogen.sh in each module. This should not make it any more > unpleasant than the current situation. > > Having read your comment, I would not make the XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.17) > change. In this transition period, older modules can be built with > autoreconf & configure from git using a <= 1.16 xorg-macros. > > From a single module developer point of view, the autogen.sh is not > needed to build from source. It's not part of the GNU build system > architecture. It's a legacy script from the days where autoreconf did > not exist and a handful of commands had to be submitted every time.
So, a few months later...any further thoughts on this? Anything I can do to help? I know it's a trivial thing, but I've made a lot of progress in standardizing the build-from-git across many modules in the stack now, and X.org definitely stands out in sheer module count =) _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
