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Hello,

On Jan 8, 2007, at 15:17, Blair Sadewitz wrote:

> I think I may just be burnt-out after working with all of those
> packages in modular Xorg too often. ;)

I do understand that all too well...

> What Christos suggests is what I was planning on trying.

Unlike me Christos should know what he's talking about here ;)

> The only problem I see--and again, I could be seeing ghosts here--is 
> that in
> modular Xorg, they don't use autoconf to simply produce things like
> config.h. If that were the case, I wouldn't worry much.
> Unfortunately, their methodology is more complex than that.

Usually - as far as I can tell - it boils down to include or exclude 
some files based on platform and pass extra flags to some files.

> Moreover, unlike XFree86, there are many dependencies involving
> important headers which all must be installed prior to building any
> module which requires them.  Thus, if we were to simply use autoconf,
> we'd need a shadow root, right?

This looks like something that can be done before building.

> Given the percentage of our supported platforms  which will ever
> likely have DRI, though, we could either have the users build the
> drivers themselves or distribute them in binary form built somewhere 
> else other than the
> autobuild cluster.

Yeah, i386, amd64, macppc, maybe sparc64 - that's pretty much it.

> Thanks for all of your input, I appreciate it.

Thanks for tackling the beast - everyone appreciates that ;)

have fun
Michael
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