Compiling weston now needs colord

Stefan Schmidt s.schmidt at samsung.com
Thu May 30 00:30:28 PDT 2013


Hello.

On 05/30/2013 07:24 AM, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 22:16 -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
>> Running autogen.sh in weston with --disable-colord works to avoid this,
>> I suspect nothing I care about is lost this way.
>
> I ran into the very same problems. I would have preferred if such new
> dependencies were optional or if someone would explain what we will miss
> if we disable them. For colord, trying to build the latest required
> version from git just pulls in more dependencies that you also have to
> build from git (as Bill mentioned).
>
> It's kind of frustrating, even if weston is meant to be a playground and
> thus new dependencies have to be expected.

Its not a hard dependency. Just pass --disable-colord and it will work 
without it just fine. I don't really have an opinion if this should be 
set to enabled by default or not.

regards
Stefan Schmidt



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