RFD: setting up a minimal xorg configuration

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:26:26 +0300
> From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Embedded devices want to set up an Xorg server with very specific and
> customized capabilities. Several modules and extensions are simply unused
> on these devices and not desirable to be built. So far we've been adjusting
> this with a huge amount of autoconf options, which in turn means 2251 lines of
> total mess in our configure.ac. It's far from being practical. 
> 
> Let's pick my N900 case, for instance. I'm configuring Xorg more less like
> this:
> 
> ### DDXes
>     --disable-xwin
>     --disable-kdrive
>     --disable-xnest
>     --disable-dmx
>     --disable-xvfb
>     --disable-xwin
> ### Modules and extensions
>     --disable-xdmcp
>     --disable-xdm-auth-1
>     --disable-ipv6
>     --disable-tcp-transport
>     --disable-secure-rpc
>     --disable-glx
>     --disable-aiglx
>     --disable-glx-tls
>     --disable-dri
>     --disable-xace
>     --disable-dbe
>     --disable-xinerama
>     --disable-dpms
>     --disable-vgahw
>     --disable-xfree86-utils
>     --disable-dga
>     --disable-vbe
>     --disable-int10-module
>     --disable-xaa
>     --disable-xvmc
>     --disable-fontserver
>     --disable-libdrm
> ### Vendor related and misc
>     --with-default-font-path="/" \
>     --with-fontdir="/" \
>     --with-os-vendor="Nokia" \
>     --with-vendor-name="Nokia" \
>     --with-vendor-name-short="Nokia" \
>     --with-vendor-web="http://www.nokia.com/" \
>     --with-xkb-output=/tmp

That's a lot of options, all of which showing up when you type
./configure --help.  Do you think people can still make sense out of
that?