Hi, On 11 October 2017 at 23:03, Lyude Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that we can actually configure all of the directories xkb uses for > finding things, we can (finally, but only with meson) finally make it so > that with the correct meson configuration the Xserver will "just work" > without any additional changes to the installation prefix after > building. > > For the people like me who have since scripted this part out of their > build process and forgotten about it, building and installing the X > server into a non-standard prefix has always required the following (or > something else that makes sure that X has a valid xkbcomp configuration) > commands be run right after doing the installation: > > # start in root of prefix you installed X to > mkdir -pv share/X11/xkb/rules > ln -s /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev share/X11/xkb/rules/ > rm -f bin/xkbcomp > ln -s /usr/bin/xkbcomp bin/ > > The one last piece of getting rid of this post-install junk is making > sure that we can control the directory that X uses for finding the > xkbcomp binary from meson so we can point it at the system provided > xkbcomp (/usr/bin/xkbcomp or similar). So, this patch adds a > configuration option for controlling this called xkb_bin_dir.
We really should've made xkbcomp ship a pkg-config file. Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <[email protected]> Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
