[xorg-server] git HEAD build failure

[Maarten Maathuis]

It's still broken for me, i will look into it.

On 9/3/07, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:53 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 23:18 +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > > The problem was a typo, but later more problems became apparent.
> > >
> > > I am unsure if this is the right way, because some of the things i
> > > added back are in XSERVER_LIBS now, but at least this builds.
> > >
> > > I suggest this is reviewed by someone with significant knowledge of
> > > autotools and friends.
> >
> > Yeah, Eric is trying to sort out dependencies so that the X server
> > *does* get built when things change (it wasn't always getting built when
> > needed).
> >
> > He claims to understand the linking process of automake/libtool now, but
> > I'm doubtful that anyone can and remain sane enough to feed themselves.
> >
> > In any case, it should be fixed shortly.
>
> I have not only managed to fix the Xorg server build, but also make
> lunch today.  So there.
>
> I'm not terribly happy with the current solution, though.  It seems
> braindead to me that we have to manually handle link order issues (by
> adding the same lib again afterwards).  The alternative I was playing
> with last night was throwing all of Xorg's contents into a libtool lib
> first, then linking Xorg out of that.  It seemed to work, except for
> being a bit slow because it was archiving the whole mess twice.
>
> --
> Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
> eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
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