[OE-core] xserver-xorg.inc and sysconfdir setting

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 15:23, Alan Kozlay <alan.kozlay at ves-solutions.com> wrote:
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> Maintainers,
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> I needed Xorg to run as non-root from a non-console user on a machine which needed the intel chipset drivers.
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> Eventually, I made a bbappend for xserver-xorg and added "--enable-suid-wrapper" to EXTRA_OECONF.
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> This was supposed to allow me to provide an /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config in which I could let Xorg know that the user is not a "console" user (not a logged-in user).  But my Xwrapper.config was ignored.
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> Upon strace of Xorg, I found that Xorg was looking for the existence of such a config file in /etc/X11/X11/Xwrapper.config.  This is because the xserver-xorg.inc file adds "--sysconfdir=/etc/X11" to EXTRA_OECONF.
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> Xorg source code already appends "/X11/" to ${sysconfdir} when looking for this file.
> I wonder what other files Xorg might be not finding because of that setting.
> I wonder why sysconfdir was set, at all.

There is 'git blame' and other facilities for looking through commit
history to find answers to such questions. Also, patches to address
issues are welcome.

Alex