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

[Dan Nicholson]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 17:35 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> To me, the only reason is that since you can't override the path at
> runtime either, there's no way to set a custom path to the modules.
> Maybe that's more of a runtime concern, though.
>
> A custom path for dri would be a path that is different from the path where
> the mesa dri drivers are installed (mesa default $libdir/dri). Would that
> even work and
> why would a system builder do that?
>
> This case would make jurisprudence in similar situations.

Not so much a system builder, but a developer or someone debugging a
problem that wants to point at an alternate set of drivers. I don't
think the configure option helps as much as a xorg.conf option,
though.

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Dan