On 29 September 2014 05:08, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/09/14 19:04, Ilia Mirkin wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On 28/09/14 18:00, Ilia Mirkin wrote: >>>> This reverts commit bbe6f7f865cd4316b5f885507ee0b128a20686eb. >>>> >>>> This change broke the usual assumption that setting a prefix will cause >>>> files to be installed into that prefix. Restore that assumption before >>>> people's system installs are accidentally overwritten, and everyone >>>> starts having to add a --with-libvdpau-dir as a hack to work around this. >>>> >>> That assumption was broken long time ago. Mesa is _not_ the only package >>> to do so. >> >> I honestly can't think of another package that uses autoconf and >> doesn't respect --prefix. You may be right that such a package may >> exist, but if you point it out, I'll just file a bug with them asking >> them to fix it :) >> > libva-intel-driver is a nice example. I've come across another 5+ a > couple of weeks ago but did not bother writing them down. Doubt that I > will look into this obscurity any time soon, but I'll make a note just > in case I change my mind.
libva-intel-driver is probably not an example of anything you want to do. > The point is if we are to revert this, we have to nuke the equivalent > omx and va ones. Afaics there is no middle ground - either we keep the > commit or add some default and hope that distros and anyone building > mesa will bother correcting their config. Are you volunteering to hold > everyone's hand during the transition ? distros can keep up, don't install outside --prefix is a rule we should stick to,. Dave. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
