On 14-02-19 12:59 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:45:32 -0500
>> From: Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]>
>>
>> This is great feedback. So links are not the ideal solution, in fact, no
>> solution at all for many.
>>
>> To my knowledge, this leaves us with the ideal solution I call "code
>> re-factoring" to replace the cherry-picking of reusable source files
>> which is exemplified by Jon Turney 's patch earlier in this thread.
>>
>> I've CC Emil Velikov for Mesa who has a bug report for the same issue.
>>
>> I am withdrawing this patch series and turning the problem over to the X
>> server developers. There are 18 makefiles that are broken under automake
>> 2.0 (warnings under 1.14).
> Note that not all warnings are actually problems.  For example the
> directories under hw/xfree86/os-support are largely subdir-objects
> safe.  Probably enough to make sure hw/xfree86/os-support/shared gets
> created in the build directory before entering the OS-specific
> directory.  The same is probably true for os/strlcpy.c and
> os/strlcat.c.  Although those files are defenitely candidates for a
> libtool convenience library.
>
Yes, various areas of the server code require different solutions. In
order to also clear the warnings, the $(srcdir)/../ will half to go.  I
have seen patches submitted providing workarounds, but if automake does
not allow something by design, the implementation can always change and
what used to work now doesn't anymore.

Thanks.
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