[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]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014, Julien Cristau 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?

> What do you use those options for?

to build both standalone VNC tigernvc server and xorg vnc extension,
which rely pretty much on rebuilding (patched) xorg server AFAIK (or
significant portions of it)  so reusing stock original configuration
options (which you tune up across platforms) make sense to me.

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