[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t] configure.ac: Try to find XMLRPC with xmlrpc-c-config if pkg-config fails

[Arkadiusz Hiler]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:15:18PM +0300, Arkadiusz Hiler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 07:35:33PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:34:45PM +0300, Petri Latvala wrote:
> > > Debian and Ubuntu have XMLRPC packages without pkg-config files. Let's
> > > do automatically what the user would anyway do manually.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
> > > CC: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > > CC: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski at linux.intel.com>
> > > CC: Lyude <lyude at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Works like I charm, I went right ahead and pushed it.
> > 
> > Lyude, I noticed that you've disabled chamelium by default, but I guess we
> > could also auto-enable (if deps are there) if you feel like.
> > 
> > Thanks, Daniel
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I do not like that "auto-enable if deps are there" and let me explain
> why ;-)
> 
> Chamelium is not very widely used, and most people don't care about it
> being build, so that's why it should not be the default.
> 
> But then if you do care and it haven't build this one time for you the
> "fun" with rootcausing starts.
> 
> I think it's better to make people used to explicitly request chamelium
> to be build and have nice configure-time errors, stating what exactely
> is missing.
> 
> Especially now, when new dependencies for chamelium are being added all
> the time.
> 
> 
> And I believe that should apply to everything - we shouldn't have things
> that may build or may not if you follow exactely the same build steps on
> different machines.
> 
> The components should be either mandatory by default or made "mandatory"
> with a switch.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Arek

CCing people who may be interested.