[PATCH xserver] config: remove --with-dri-driver-path option, use dri.pc #29740

[Kristian Høgsberg]

2010/8/24 Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 12:56 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> Could just use dri.pc for the default value of the option, rather than
> removing it altogether?
>
> Yes. I think the author of the bug report wishes to also remove the option
> as it is no longer useful.
>
> This is an opportunity for me to get the real story being this type of
> option. There are many in the server but also in other modules. It looks to
> me that in the past there were no pkg-config infrastructure (or it was not
> used or not mature) so there had to be an option for every directory a
> module needed to know.
>
> Once a directory is published through pkg-config, there is no longer a need
> to ask the user for its value. I suspect it is even wrong to allow the user
> to specify one as there cannot be 2 directories for the same stuff.

I added the option in c3342c8000f6d2bfb61e2cf95e028d11b59698fa in
2004.  At the time we didn't have dri.pc.  I don't see a reason to
keep it now.

Kristian