[PATCH] Autodetect libdrm path (v2)

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On 7 February 2017 at 11:30, Tom St Denis <tom.stdenis at amd.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/17 06:02 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>
>> On 6 February 2017 at 22:39, StDenis, Tom <Tom.StDenis at amd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Apparently I missed the bottom of your reply (all of the clients I have
>>> outlook/gmail do top post only ...)
>>
>> Both Outlook and Gmail can do inline replies and plain text. There
>> might be some magic required for the former though :-\
>> I would kindly suggest using inline/text when possible.
>
>
> You'll be pleased to note I discovered (at some point) that AMD has
> re-enabled imap support and I can now use a more sensible client...
>
> :-)
>
Amazing news, thank you !

>>> Ironically, I had the pkg_check originally but was told that's a
>>> faux-pas.
>>>
>> It's a common misconception, influenced by the sheer volume of copy/paste
>> :-)
>>
>>>
>>> Unless this is breaking for actual users though it's not really a
>>> priority to bikeshed the build system of a 30 file project that is meant to
>>> work only on developer machines who are likely building for themselves
>>>
>> Up-to you really. FWIW using cmake/autoconf/etc. is a huge overkill.
>> The original makefile was missing a few things* worth 10-20 lines of
>> code while being noticeably smaller, quicker and easier to read ;-)
>
>
> To be honest unless the cmake system gets in the way I'm happy if it makes
> others happy.  It's not easy to say the project is "open" if we NAK any and
> all harmless commits that the users advocate for.
>
> The official stance from AMD (specifically the team I work for) is if cmake
> gets in the way of AMD work we will nuke the cmake system and go back to
> gmake (with pkg-config shell calls to get paths).
>
> Personally I'm not a big fan of overly complicated config/build systems but
> since I don't do package building/etc for a living I'll defer to the
> opinions of others within reason.
>
Bth, you're not missing anything much by not tinkering with
autoconf/cmake/etc. It's just a bikeshed fest with overly biased
people on each side ;-)

Thanks
Emil


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