Not able to build weston following the instructions in the website.

[Srivardhan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayland-devel [mailto:wayland-devel-
> bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Pekka Paalanen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:03 PM
> To: Srivardhan
> Cc: wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Not able to build weston following the instructions in the
> website.
> 
> On Tue, 13 May 2014 12:44:45 +0530
> Srivardhan <sri.hebbar at samsung.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > When followed the instructions in the
> > http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html, Weston configure fails,
> > as it won't find the wayland-scanner installed in custom location. So
> > we need to update the build instructions in the website to update the
> > PATH variable with custom location. Has nobody else faced this issue?
> 
> Yeah:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-April/014005.html
> 
> The proper fix would be to change the build system to use the path from
> pkg-config instead of relying on PATH.
> 
> I wonder if that would break any cross-compiling environments, where
> wayland-scanner may be built separately for the build machine, though.
> Wayland's configure has a switch --disable-scanner, so that a cross-build
can
> build libwayland for the target machine without having to fight with
building
> wayland-scanner for the build machine at the same time. There wayland-
> scanner is found by PATH.
> 
> So, I think weston's configure should get wayland-scanner based on the
pkg-
> config file by default, but have an option to explicitly override that, in
case a
> cross-build needs to use a different wayland-scanner than what the pkg-
> config file refers to.
> 
Thanks Pq,

I will see if I can fix this and send a patch.

Thank-you,
Hebbar
> 
> Thanks,
> pq
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