[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/weston-imx: Split weston-imx off from weston

James Hilliard james.hilliard1 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 14 19:04:39 UTC 2019


On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 12:53 PM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>
> James, All,
>
> On 2019-07-14 12:37 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> > On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 12:34 PM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> > > On 2019-06-25 16:50 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> > > > This is in preparation for migration of weston to the meson build system.
> > > > Since weston-imx is based off of a much older version of weston it is
> > > > difficult to maintain as part of the weston package.
> [--SNIP--]
> > > Which implies that we should allow bioth westons to be installed side by
> > > side, and that the imx variant be installed as 'weston-imx', e.g. using
> > > the ./configure flag:
> > Is there a use case for having both westons side by side?
>
> Well, yes: the RDB stuff for example does not seem to depend on the
> hardware at all, in fact, so it would be better if it were provided by
> the real weston, which is more up-to-date with RDP than by the imx fork,
> which supports an older version of RDP. And it has caused grief in the
> past that when we update weston, it uses newer FreeRDP APIs, or the
> other way around, when we update FreeRDP, it no longer exports APIs
> needed by older weston.
Ah, I don't have any imx hardware so someone else would probably need
to do that.
>
> So, I'd like we find a way for the imxc fork to be consrained to only
> the actual imx backend, and keep using the official weston for all the
> rest.
I'm not sure how one would best go about that.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
> > >     --program-suffix=-imx
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Yann E. MORIN.
> > >
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