Things that killed my motivation to play with wayland

[darxus at chaosreigns.com]

1) This mesa bug:  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61919
make fails without C_INCLUDE_PATH set.  It pretty much destroyed my build
testing setup (I was build testing 46 related repos every few hours).
I never managed to work out the obvious workaround of just setting
C_INCLUDE_PATH for mesa builds (which I had working for another repo).
I included the commit where the problem started.  Three months ago.
(Build test script I wrote: http://www.chaosreigns.com/code/buildtest/ )

2) The XWayland segfault bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59983
This was the reason I stopped using weston as my primary UI at home in
September.  Tiago said he had a fix for it in one of his branches a long
time ago, but I guess it wasn't compatible with the changes made to the
plan to handle xwm.  Blows my mind that this isn't the top priority of the
project.  I'm sure there's fine reasons.  It would be nice to know what
they are.

3) The state of cairo's build testing, particularly this bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62375
Cairo has a huge and glorious build test suite.  But it looked very
much to me like nobody could've gotten it to pass all tests in any
subset in years.  psychon was very helpful in tracking down and fixing
problems.  This one last bug was in the way of me being able to get a full
subset of tests to pass, so I could automate running them reasonably.
The maintainer of cairo, Chris Wilson, included a patch to fix it in a
comment to that bug, but we haven't been able to get him to commit it,
in three months.  (Lots of stuff, including weston and gtk, are heavily
dependent on cairo, which tends to break.  Which isn't surprising with
its unusable build tests.  And the fact that the build test instructions
specify a method that doesn't allow cairo-gl to be tested.)

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