[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] Revert "configure: ask vdpau.pc for the default location of the vdpau drivers"

[Dave Airlie]

On 29 September 2014 06:13, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28/09/14 20:08, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> On 28/09/14 19:04, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>> This, however, has nothing to do with mesa. When I set --prefix,
>>>> that's saying "hey, install here". Not "hey, install here for most
>>>> things, but actually overwrite my system install for other things".
>>>>
>>> The point is if we are to revert this, we have to nuke the equivalent
>>> omx and va ones. Afaics there is no middle ground - either we keep the
>>> commit or add some default and hope that distros and anyone building
>>> mesa will bother correcting their config. Are you volunteering to hold
>>> everyone's hand during the transition ?
>>>
>> Had this idea, but I'm not too trilled about it:
>> Default = blank, and error out if the user did not set it. The error
>> message will state how to get it of course :)
>> This approach is not ideal but in a way it covers the "all must adhere
>> prefix" and prevents the case of xx reports on the topic "vdpau/omx is
>> broken".
>>
>> Thoughts ?
>
> What was wrong with the thing we did before that worked fine for
> everyone in all cases? Use ${prefix}/lib/vdpau, allow people to
> override if they want something funky?
>

use ${libdir}/vdpau as default.

or whatever vdpau uses as a default.

Dave.