On 14-03-19 12:42 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Actually, why are those in the root dir, and not confined under > something like AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])? A handful of modules do that and is perfectly ok. A while ago I had considered doing just to all xorg modules. The vast majority of 250 xorg modules are small, so the content of build-aux is rather small and there were still many files left in the root. Not much bang for the buck. > > Many (if not all) drivers and tests specify AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(.) > which kind of defeats the point of the macro, and I never changed it > on the driver I maintain because I suspected there might be a rationale > for that? So if there is, it would be nice to know. :) I don't think there was. The drivers autotools files were created via scripting which explains why they are similar. No one changed it for the same reason you didn't. That was done before my time, when automake 1.7 was used. Who knows what bugs/workarounds were needed at the time!
It could be removed today, but some could object the majority of drivers are obsolete and should be left alone. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
