Xorg 7.1 utilities - util-macros - .m4 files installed in the wrong place

[Bryan Kadzban]

In the installation instructions for Xorg 7.1 (modular), in the Xorg Utilities section, the last package installed is util-macros.

Since $XORG_CONFIG contains --datadir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib, the configure script for util-macros is passed that parameter. It proceeds to install two .m4 files (custom automake macros) into /usr/lib/aclocal. But aclocal does not look in /usr/lib/aclocal, it only looks in /usr/share/aclocal (its ${datadir}/aclocal).

The easiest fix is to add --datadir=$XORG_PREFIX/share to the end of the util-macros configure script invocation (overriding $XORG_CONFIG).

But this isn't an issue unless someone develops software that (1) uses automake, and (2) requires these custom Xorg macros. (Well, and (3) doesn't add -I$XORG_PREFIX/lib/aclocal to their invocation of aclocal. But no other package uses e.g. /usr/lib/aclocal, so adding this will certainly not be common.) It's likely a fairly minor problem because of that.

[Bryan Kadzban]

Oops, looks like this is a dupe of #2119. (That's what I get for searching the ticket database for "macros" and "utilities", but not "xorg".) I've also noticed other packages (than just util-macros) installing M4 stuff into /usr/lib/aclocal.

I'll investigate building all of Xorg 7.1 (except the AppleWM and WindowsWM stuff) with --datadir=$XORG_PREFIX/share, and see if anything breaks. I'll post in ticket #2119 whether or not that works (and what else I had to change, if anything).

[DJ Lucas]

Closing the dupe... #2119 has it covered fairly well.