How to determine modular paths?

[Andy Ritger]

Thanks, Daniel.

To be clear: this is definitely just a packaging/distribution issue.
I just need an X.Org email thread that I can point to when asking
distributions to make sure the pkg-config command is usable to determine
the modular path.  The previous email thread from last December on this
topic was not deemed sufficiently clear.

Hopefully this is sufficient:

> >     pkg-config --variable=moduledir xorg-server
> >     pkg-config --variable=libdir xorg-server
[...]
>> Are the above pkg-config commands the correct way for 3rd party
>> installation tools to determine the paths where the related files should
>> be installed?
>
> Yes.

Thanks,
- Andy


On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:20:28AM -0800, Andy Ritger wrote:
>> However, in many modular installations, the pkg-config command does
>> not work because the .pc file is not installed along with the X server,
>> but rather with the devel package which many users do not have installed.
>
> Right, this is a packaging issue.
>
>> Are the above pkg-config commands the correct way for 3rd party
>> installation tools to determine the paths where the related files should
>> be installed?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so, then I'd like to argue that it should not require installing a
>> devel package in order to get the .pc file that defines these variables.
>> Rather, it would be very helpful if distributions adjusted their packaging
>> so that .pc files with these variables came with the xorg-server package,
>> without the need to specifically install a devel package.
>
> Again, this is purely a packaging issue: you should take it up with the
> distributions.
>
> Though, if you were to go down that particular road, you wouldn't be the
> first external utility to grep Xorg.0.log for your favourite strings ...
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>