Re: [Xorg] Reorganizing the xc/include directory

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 10:13, Keith Packard wrote:
> The biggest difference between the monolithic build and the modular build 
> is how the shared include files are managed.  To successfully create a 
> system which can build either way, we need to migrate from the current 
> structure to one which can support both build systems.
> 
> I think that's easy these days.  I don't think the monolithic build refers
> to files from that directory when compiling stuff; instead, the files are
> "installed" during the 'make includes' phase into exports/include/X11 
> where other parts of the system can find them.
> 
> Given that, I suggest we create sub-directories within xc/include to hold 
> each logical package of headers as seen in the modular build.  We can then 
> create new Imakefiles and get things building again.  Once that's done, we 
> can integrate the automake-based files into those same directories and get 
> them also building that way.
> 
> Does this make sense?  Anyone see problems or have concerns with this?

I'm completely in favor of the modular build, and think that building it
within the xorg tree is a good idea.  However, I hope that the header
packages get made a little more monolithic.  Most of the space in the
*ext packages is taken up by the autotools stuff.  If we had maybe two
sets of header packages -- xproto and xextensions (containing headers
not included by libXext, as well), tops, that would be great.

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