Compiling Newest Wayland on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

[Bill Spitzak]

As suggested I updated my machine to Ubuntu 12.04, then cleared out all 
of Wayland and built again, using the wayland build script here (edited 
to assume the current directory is the source, I don't know why he keeps 
changing this):

  http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/buildscript/dl/wayland-build-0.85.sh

This all compiled with no errors. However wayland is working a lot worse 
than my previous compiles (this is all using x11-compositor on my noveau 
driven desktop and a rather dated Nvidia card):

  1. Running without the config file does not produce a usable desktop. 
I think the previous one used the location of weston to guess the 
location of weston-terminal (ie it figures out it is in ~/install/bin), 
the new one seems to have hard-coded /usr/bin. Also the supplied config 
file is much worse than the built-in default, having garish colors and 
lacking the rather nice tiled pattern background. These really should be 
fixed just so the initial experience of wayland, and the experience if 
config files are missing, is not so unpleasant. I know it is the toy 
shell but I think this is going to be the initial experience for a lot 
of users.

  2. Window buttons have vanished. I suspect this is because it cannot 
find the icons. I have no idea how (or if) fixing the config file will 
fix this. Previous version worked, and if the path was wrong it still 
produced blank buttons, which was better than current behavior!

  3. The clickdot demo has vanished, including the source code. This was 
actually a good instructive demo on how to use toytoolkit.

  4. simple-egl now fails with a short error message. Rather annoying 
since I am now stuck with shm clients only.

I am rather surprised at the number of changes like this, and was 
wondering if in fact there was some problem with the build.