On 04/06/2018 09:59 PM, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> On 04/03/2018 02:27 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 02:31:20PM -0700, Aaron Plattner wrote:
>>> meson.build has code to set the module_dir variable to
>>> ${libdir}/xorg/modules if the module_dir option string is empty.
>>> However, this has several problems:
>>>
>>> 1. The variable is only used for an unused @moduledir@ substitution in
>>> the man page. The rule for xorg-server.pc uses option('module_dir')
>>> directly instead.
>>> 2. The 'module_dir' option has a default value of 'xorg/modules' so the
>>> above rule doesn't do anything by default.
>>> 3. The xorg-server.pc rule uses ${exec_prefix}/option('module_dir'), so
>>> the effect of #2 is that the default moduledir is different between
>>> autoconf and meson. E.g. if ${prefix} is /X, then you get
>>>
>>> autoconf: moduledir=/X/lib/xorg/modules
>>> meson: moduledir=/X/xorg/modules
>>
>> Ugh... you're right. I was setting --libexecdir ${prefix}/lib in my
>> scripts, which is why I wasn't seeing the above inconsistency.
>>
>>> Fix this by using the module_dir variable when generating
>>> xorg-server.pc, and by removing the default value for the module_dir
>>> option.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Plattner <aplatt...@nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>>> meson.build | 2 +-
>>> meson_options.txt | 3 +--
>>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
>>> index 277534093b94..3e3f808b2d7a 100644
>>> --- a/meson.build
>>> +++ b/meson.build
>>> @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ if build_xorg
>>> sdkconfig.set('libdir', join_paths('${exec_prefix}',
>>> get_option('libdir')))
>>> sdkconfig.set('includedir', join_paths('${prefix}',
>>> get_option('includedir')))
>>> sdkconfig.set('datarootdir', join_paths('${prefix}',
>>> get_option('datadir')))
>>> - sdkconfig.set('moduledir', join_paths('${exec_prefix}',
>>> get_option('module_dir')))
>>> + sdkconfig.set('moduledir', join_paths('${exec_prefix}',
>>> module_dir))
>>
>> This would still give us an inconsistent path if the user passed in some
>> other, relative directory for module_dir, right? So if they passed:
>>
>> --module-dir foo/xorg/modules
>>
>> they'd get /usr/foo/xorg/modules in the pkg-config files, but the server
>> would actually look for it in /usr/lib/foo/xorg/modules.
>>
>>> sdkconfig.set('sdkdir', join_paths('${prefix}',
>>> get_option('includedir'), 'xorg'))
>>> sdkconfig.set('sysconfigdir', join_paths('${datarootdir}',
>>> 'X11/xorg.conf.d'))
>>> diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
>>> index 5c7be0e26ce5..4cf8349ba9e5 100644
>>> --- a/meson_options.txt
>>> +++ b/meson_options.txt
>>> @@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ option('builder_addr', type: 'string', description:
>>> 'Builder address', value: 'x
>>> option('builder_string', type: 'string', description: 'Additional
>>> builder string')
>>> option('log_dir', type: 'string')
>>> -option('module_dir', type: 'string', value: 'xorg/modules',
>>> - description: 'X.Org modules directory')
>>> +option('module_dir', type: 'string', description: 'X.Org modules
>>> directory')
>>
>> It seems somewhat backwards to me to avoid the feature of assigning a
>> default value for an option and was totally surprising to me because I
>> didn't go look for a default assignment in meson.build, so I completely
>> missed it.
>>
>> Why don't we do the following:
>>
>> 1) define that module_dir is either absolute or relative to
>> ${libdir}
>>
>> 2) keep the default in the option declaration
>>
>> 3) change the module_dir variable to always be made up of the
>> libdir and module_dir options joined
>>
>> For 3), the Meson documentation specifies that if any of the arguments
>> to join_paths() is an absolute path, all arguments before it are
>> dropped, so it automatically deals with the case where users specify an
>> absolute path.
>>
>> Something like the below squashed into your patch.
>
> Thanks Thierry. The patch below seems reasonable to me, but I'm out of
> the office until Wednesday so I won't be able to test it until then.
Sorry I forgot about this until now. I confirmed that I still get
/usr/lib/xorg/modules with this patch. I'll send out a v2.
I still get the server looking for /etc/X11/etc/xorg.conf. I'm not sure
what that's about yet.
-- Aaron
>> Thierry
>>
>> --- >8 ---
>> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
>> index 3e3f808b2d7a..33e2f6d88b1a 100644
>> --- a/meson.build
>> +++ b/meson.build
>> @@ -267,10 +267,7 @@ if log_dir == ''
>> log_dir = join_paths(get_option('prefix'),
>> get_option('localstatedir'), 'log')
>> endif
>> -module_dir = get_option('module_dir')
>> -if module_dir == ''
>> - module_dir = join_paths(get_option('libdir'), 'xorg/modules')
>> -endif
>> +module_dir = join_paths(get_option('libdir'), get_option('module_dir'))
>> if glamor_option == 'auto'
>> build_glamor = build_xorg or build_xwayland
>> @@ -510,7 +507,7 @@ manpage_config.set('XKB_DFLT_LAYOUT',
>> get_option('xkb_default_layout'))
>> manpage_config.set('XKB_DFLT_VARIANT',
>> get_option('xkb_default_variant'))
>> manpage_config.set('XKB_DFLT_OPTIONS',
>> get_option('xkb_default_options'))
>> manpage_config.set('bundle_id_prefix', '...')
>> -manpage_config.set('modulepath', join_paths(get_option('prefix'),
>> module_dir))
>> +manpage_config.set('modulepath', module_dir)
>> # wtf doesn't this work
>> # manpage_config.set('suid_wrapper_dir',
>> join_paths(get_option('prefix'), libexecdir))
>> manpage_config.set('suid_wrapper_dir',
>> join_paths(get_option('prefix'), 'libexec'))
>> diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
>> index 4cf8349ba9e5..1c8775c3fdaa 100644
>> --- a/meson_options.txt
>> +++ b/meson_options.txt
>> @@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ option('builder_addr', type: 'string', description:
>> 'Builder address', value: 'x
>> option('builder_string', type: 'string', description: 'Additional
>> builder string')
>> option('log_dir', type: 'string')
>> -option('module_dir', type: 'string', description: 'X.Org modules
>> directory')
>> +option('module_dir', type: 'string', value: 'xorg/modules',
>> + description: 'X.Org modules directory (absolute or relative to
>> the directory specified by the libdir option)')
>> option('default_font_path', type: 'string')
>> option('glx', type: 'boolean', value: true)
>>
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