From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] xapp_init: bad substitution of mcookie path in startx
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:27:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FA9F5E.4020005@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F8218F.4070701@wanadoo.fr>
On 17/01/13 17:06, Thierry Bultel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the long delay
>
> The bug is reproducible with latest release,
> and I finally found out why.
>
> The issue is that in xapp_xinit, 'configure' checks for 'mcookie', and
> the first time, founds it ... on the host side, ie the "/usr/bin/mcookie"
> of Ubuntu for instance. This is the path that is substituted in startx.
>
> When rebuilding the xapp_xinit package, "mcookie" has been built by
> buildroot, in the xorg_server package. Thus "configure" finds it in our
> build directory, ie output/host/usr/bin/mcookie, which is not a target path.
>
> A quick fix (not meaning it is the cleanest way) is simply to add
>
> XAPP_XINIT_CONF_OPT += MCOOKIE=/usr/bin/mcookie
>
> in xapp_xinit.mk
That's a perfectly clean solution - on condition that mcookie is indeed
installed on the target. I guess the option should therefore be in an
ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX),y)
XAPP_XINIT_CONF_OPT += MCOOKIE=/usr/bin/mcookie
endif
Care to make a patch?
Regards,
Arnout
>
> Thierry
[snip]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-19 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-04 12:35 [Buildroot] xapp_init: bad substitution of mcookie path in startx Thierry Bultel
2012-12-04 19:37 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-12-04 21:12 ` Thierry Bultel
2013-01-17 16:06 ` Thierry Bultel
2013-01-19 13:27 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-01-19 13:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-19 15:57 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-20 8:53 ` Peter Korsgaard
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