[PATCH weston] configure.ac: honour the wayland-scanner.pc

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Feb 16 14:07:33 PST 2015


Hi,

On 16 February 2015 at 20:46, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty certain there was an old version that looked in the PATH, but
> this has the really unfortunate effect that the build does not work, you
> have to manually create the wayland_scanner and put it in the path, then run
> the build.
>
> Would it be possible to search the path, and if not found, search the
> install location? Anybody doing cross-compilation can the do the extra work
> to put the build machine's wayland-scanner on the path, but somebody
> building wayland for their own machine will get a working copy right away.

If they're building Weston on a machine which doesn't have the Wayland
development libraries installed, they're going to need to have pointed
PKG_CONFIG_PATH at a Wayland install anyway ...

Cheers,
Daniel


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