Xwayland location

[Giulio Camuffo]

2015-10-15 18:36 GMT+03:00 Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>:
> On 10/15/2015 12:24 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:21:31 -0700
>> Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems like /usr/bin/Xwayland is hard-coded into xwayland.so. This
>>> makes it not run local installed versions of Xwayland. I could not get X
>>> programs to work under wayland without doing "sudo ln -s
>>> ~/install/bin/Xwayland /usr/bin".
>>>
>>> I noticed this because I had no /usr/bin/Xwayland, but I am concerned
>>> that if it really is installed, a developer will not realize they are
>>> not running their locally installed copy.
>>>
>>> There is a configure option --with-xserver-path but it would help if
>>> --prefix worked as a default (ie $prefix/bin/Xwayland).
>>
>>
>> That would be a wrong default for me now, while it would have been the
>> right default earlier this year. Either way, someone loses. That's why
>> there is --with-xserver-path.
>>
>>> Another possible solution is to use an environment variable ($XWAYLAND
>>> maybe?) as the name of the program.
>>>
>>> Maybe a better question is why the path is hard-coded, rather than it
>>> searching the path for this?
>>
>>
>> There is also a weston.ini option for the Xwayland path, see 'man
>> weston.ini'.
>
>
> The fact that it finds my xwayland.so file in ~/install, but cannot find the
> Xwayland executable in ~/install bothers me a lot, however. It obviously
> figured out where xwayland.so is from the --prefix arg to configure and this
> really should match.

No, the xwayland.so is a part of weston, Xwayland is an entirely
separate binary coming from an entirely separate project, so i really
don't think weston should assume it is in the same prefix as itself.

>
> PS: weston.ini option is like this:
>
> [xwayland]
> path=myhome/install/bin/Xwayland
>
>
>
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