[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] next step is to get (duplicate?) xorg possibly arch-specific build options [Was: Bug#730552 closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>]

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

FWIW -- I have pushed to alioth some changes I have done to
enh/xorg-server-source branch toward using 'stock' xorg-server-source
package and simplifying somewhat the entire structure.

So the main obstacle atm would be how to obtain also 'stock' debian build
options for xorg server.  Before Joachim or Mike did it cleverly by reusing
them from debian/rules of the xorg source package itself kept as a
submodule.  Now that would not be the option, and the easiest way I see would
be to duplicate the logic from xorg's debian/rules.  

A better solution would be to seek patching xorg's packaging tiny bit
more so it could also provide an architecture specific file with those.  E.g.
as a confflags field within xorg-server.pc within  xserver-xorg-dev  package.

Julien -- what would you say about the .pc file approach?

May be some other alternatives?

cheers

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> Hi Julien and our glorious tigervnc packaging team,

> Thank you for accepting the patch -- now we are closer to accomplishing

> [snip from IRC log]
> 23:31  yoh: jcristau: looking into that tigervnc-using-xorg-sources tarballs, one next difficulty is that we should use confflags you set in the debian/rules ... and those could be port/arch specific... not sure what could be a clean solution here
> 23:33  yoh: besides shipping entire debian/ and thus pretty much the full source package
> --- Day changed Wed Jan 08 2014
> 01:46  mlankhorst: yeah taking over xorg-server :/

> I wonder what recommendations people might have?



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