Request for volunteers: Find packages that rely on imake

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Tue Sep 27 07:39:34 UTC 2005


Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 17:54 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
>>Now that X.Org X11R7 has been autotooled and no longer uses imake
>>as a build system, imake is more or less deprecated by X.Org.  This
>>means it is about to become a second class citizen overall, and
>>eventually is likely to just die.
> 
> 
> What's the equivalent of using the SDK in the new X.Org world?
> 
> How is an external driver for X (eg synaptics) supposed/recommended to
> maintain compatibility with old/new build methods? 

All of the drivers are external and use the sdk now, which is
generated by the xorg-x11-server src.rpm into the subpackage
"xorg-x11-server-sdk".  The directory paths, et al. are
queryable via pkg-config.

More or less works the same way as before, only more automateable
now and slightly more flexible.

What would be nice, would be to get VNC using the SDK instead of
it's own full copy of the entire source.  ;)




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