[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3 v2] xorg: fix installation paths (branch yem/xorg)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Apr 21 20:01:37 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:10:58 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> This series is an attempt to fix the installation paths of many
> Xorg-related packages.
> 
> The new pkconf bumped in d7f6d320 introduced a change in behaviour: all
> path variables returned by pkgconf are now prefixed with the sysroot
> directory.
> 
> This has an impact on a lot of Xorg packages (and maybe others as well),
> since they use such paths verbatim to install files in either of:
>     $(STAGING_DIR)/$(SYSROOT_DIR)/some/path
>     $(TARGET_DIR)/$(SYSROOT_DIR)/some/path

One important thing that this cover letter doesn't explain is why we
don't fix pkg-config instead?

Thomas
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