[ANNOUNCE] A Build System For X.Org Modular

[Barry Scott]

Egbert Eich wrote:
> I while ago I started to work on a build system for the modular
> bits of X.Org.
> Today I have attached a preliminary version to the bugzilla:
>       https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10511
>
> The build system consists of 2 parts:
> - A 'Maintainer' stage where the dependency information is obtained from
>   the tree. This should be done in the SCM whenever a dependency of a module
>   changes or new modules are added.
> - A 'Builder' stage. Here the actual build takes place.
>   The build stage can optionally pull or update modules from the SCM,
>   

>   build and install the modules. It supports lndir and sourcedir builds
>   as well as a build 'prefix' and the DESTDIR variable.
>   
DESTDIR support is great to see. But how did you overcome the problem that
the modules always use the header files from PREFIX and not DESTDIR?

Barry