x11/nvidia-driver: VDPAU headers in /usr/local/include/vdpau now

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 10 16:06:04 UTC 2010


On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:34:45 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> Over the last several months, I've had received several questions on
> maybe we could move VDPAU headers to /usr/local/include/vdpau (nVidia
> reference driver and our port normally installed them under
> ${DOCSDIR}).
> 
> After short discussion with nVidia folks and maintainers that are
> particularly interested in better location of VDPAU headers, it was
> decided that they indeed be better placed
> under /usr/local/include/vdpau. The latest update of the port now
> provides two symlinks for that matter, which should obsolete other
> ports' hacks like copying them manually to local build tree.  Even
> more, those hacks could easily break with next update of nVidia
> driver port, as it was decided to move them from docs completely onto
> new location.  Hence this email.  :-)

Umm, why were headers installed in DOCSDIR in the first place?

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