Who provides $host_os variable for xserver's configure.ac script?

[Laércio de Sousa]

Thank you, Alan!

Investigating a bit further, I realised that $host_os is not the problem.
The real cause of kdrive input drivers not being automatically built in
linux is a code misplacing in configure.ac: the auto-detection test for
KDRIVE_{EVDEV,KBD,MOUSE} is placed AFTER the corresponding AC_DEFINEs, when
it should be placed BEFORE them.

I'll submit a patch right now!!

2015-06-22 20:34 GMT-03:00 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>:

> On 06/22/15 04:30 PM, Laércio de Sousa wrote:
>
>> I'm figuring out why Debian xorg-server builds are failing to
>> automatically
>> enable kdrive's evdev input driver. It seems variable "host_os", which is
>> referenced several times in configure.ac <http://configure.ac>, is
>> undefined
>> when Xorg is built in Debian. However, I've found no other occurrence of
>> this
>> variable in any other file in xserver tree.
>>
>> Where host_os should be defined?
>>
>
> By autoconf's AC_CANONICAL_HOST macro:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Canonicalizing.html#Canonicalizing
>
> which is called via the XORG_MANPAGE_SECTIONS macro in xorg-macros.m4,
> which is called via the XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS macro in xorg-macros.m4,
> which is called from the xserver/configure.ac script.
>
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>



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