On 4 December 2017 at 21:47, Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jussi, Tomek, Emil,
>
> On 18 August 2017 at 10:36, Quentin Glidic
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/18/17 11:30 AM, Quentin Glidic wrote:
>>> Projects have been using various ways to check for the wayland-scanner,
>>> mostly based on their developper own use case, and often not allowing
>>> others use cases to work without a workaround.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this macro will support all use cases without needing user
>>> action.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Glidic <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Everyone should test this macro for their own project and use cases.
>>> Using the ${WAYLAND_SCANNER} variable should just work (assuming you have
>>> the proper
>>> wayland package built in the expected env). In very very rare cases,
>>> setting the
>>> WAYLAND_SCANNER variable as a ./configure argument may be needed, but
>>> nothing else.
>>>
>>> Please let me know with enough details if your use case is not working
>>> with it.
>
> Any comments on Quentin's suggestion here? Would they be enough for you?
>
I fear that the ship has sailed long time ago and there will be
practically zero users of this.

AFAICT people have been stacking band-aid for years as opposed to
addressing things properly.
With key offender being Yocto and similar tools :-\

I'll refrain from commenting further on the topic, I doubt it's be too
beneficial.
My earlier ramblings can be found in the ML archives [1].

That said, if people are happy with the patch do go ahead.

HTH
Emil

[1]
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-March/147163.html
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-May/157116.html
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-May/157203.html
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