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

[Emil Velikov]

On 29/09/14 17:24, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So all in all we have the following:
>>
>> Some distributions/people choose odd location of the modules. Which
>> can lead to the system (vdpau/omx) looking at the wrong place for the
>> backends, i.e. not working. One can consider that there is no way to
>> override the module location at runtime.
> 
> Do we have more specifics? If they're doing something stupid and it
> breaks, they typically get to keep the pieces.
> 
> Debian/Ubuntu install to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/? Isn't
> ${libdir} just /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ in that case?
> 
Hmm I was under the impression that ${libdir} and
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ are different things. Can I consider you as a
volunteer for the following, even if the chances of it happening are zero ?

On 29/09/14 17:16, Emil Velikov wrote:
[...]
> How many volunteers do we have that will guide Debian/Ubuntu/other to
> do the correct thing ? If we have at least one, I will be OK with
> reverting the patch.
>
> -Emil
>

Thanks
Emil