[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-streaming-agent] build: Do not use top_srcdir if not necessary

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Mon Jan 29 22:16:12 UTC 2018


> 
> 
> > On 29 Jan 2018, at 12:00, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > Makefile.am | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> > index baa9835..74ec16a 100644
> > --- a/Makefile.am
> > +++ b/Makefile.am
> > @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ SUBDIRS = \
> > 
> > # this will start the program for each user session
> > xdgautostartdir = $(sysconfdir)/xdg/autostart
> > -xdgautostart_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/data/spice-streaming.desktop
> > +xdgautostart_DATA = $(srcdir)/data/spice-streaming.desktop
> 
> Could you clarify why it helps in the commit message?
> Did you run into a problem integrating that in a higher-level project?
> 
> Seems to be an enhancement for me anyway, so if you explain
> why this is incorrect in the commit messageā€¦
> 
> Acked-by: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> > # this will start the program for the login session
> > gdmautostartdir = $(datadir)/gdm/greeter/autostart
> > -gdmautostart_DATA = $(top_srcdir)/data/spice-streaming.desktop
> > +gdmautostart_DATA = $(srcdir)/data/spice-streaming.desktop
> > 
> > pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
> > pkgconfig_DATA = spice-streaming-agent.pc

Beside reducing the typing usually I prefer srcdir because you can move
(like under a subdirectory) the Makefile and the relative files without
changing the source.

Frediano


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