way to detect to xserver-xorg version

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Tias <tias at ulyssis.org> writes:

> Hey,
>
> In my program, I want to check that the xserver-xorg version is >=
> 1.8.0. What way to do this is advised:
>
> At runtime using XVendorRelease(), or do there exist different
> releases with inconsistent numbering ? And should this be combined
> with a literal match on XServerVendor() ?
>
> At configuration time, PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XSERVER18, [xorg-server >=
> 1.8.0], FOO=bar, FOO=baz). But what if you want to discriminate
> different versions, multiple PKG_CHECK_MODULES ? This would swamp the
> number of _LIBS and _CFLAGS options...
> Also, PKG_CHECK_EXSISTS() seems to ignore the version I provided, and
> always sets FOO=bar.

This would probably be easier to answer if you gave some indication of
why you think you should refuse people with different X servers to run
or compile your application.

eirik