[PATCH] Install protocol XML files in $(datadir)/wayland

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:10:28 -0500
Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:

> This installs the protocol XML under $(datadir)/wayland.  The intention
> is that this directory is a shared location for all protocol files and
> as such we'll need to prefix our filenames with weston to avoid clashing.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55183
> ---
> 
> I committed the first SDK patch that installs header files and pkg-config
> files.  Next step could be something like this...
> 
> Kristian
> 
>  protocol/Makefile.am | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/protocol/Makefile.am b/protocol/Makefile.am
> index 8c1803c..aa34f3f 100644
> --- a/protocol/Makefile.am
> +++ b/protocol/Makefile.am
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> -EXTRA_DIST =					\
> +protocoldir = $(datadir)/wayland
> +protocol_DATA =					\
>  	desktop-shell.xml			\
>  	screenshooter.xml			\
>  	tablet-shell.xml			\

Hi Kristian,

it's nice to start on this.

Should we standardise on always using just $(datadir)/wayland, or
should libwayland define the directory in its .pc file? I guess
libwayland cannot do that, because then you could not have system vs.
prefix installations of the protocol files. So, every package installs
its protocol files to where-ever it chooses.

weston.pc does not export any information that helps to find weston's
protocol files. I would suggest we add this to weston.pc.in:

protocoldir=@datadir@/wayland

or something similar that exposes the protocoldir path you added to
Makefile.am. Then other packages can get it with:
$ pkg-config --variable=protocoldir weston

Libwayland would need the same treatment.


Thanks,
pq