+x11.org/xserver (wip)

[sebst]

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[tannevaled]

Drive-by triage — this is open for 20 months with no recent activity. Bringing it up to ship-ready state needs substantial rework rather than small fixes:

Build system has moved on. Modern xorg-server (>= 21.1.x) is meson-built, not autotools. arch's xorg-server PKGBUILD uses meson setup + meson compile, and the source is now fetched from gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver rather than the legacy www.x.org/archive/individual/xserver/ tarballs. The current PR's ./configure $ARGS flow won't apply to any version published in the last ~3 years.

Hardcoded multiarch path. Lines like

cp {{deps.x.org/libcvt.prefix}}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libxcvt.pc …

break on darwin and on linux/aarch64 — only Debian-derivative distros put pkg-config files under lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/. Pkgx bottles ship pkgconfig at lib/pkgconfig/. The cp is also a workaround for an apparently-misnamed .pc file; root-cause would be to fix the libcvt recipe or the project's find_package query, not to symlink shim it here.

Test target mismatch. provides: bin/Xorg but test: xserver --version — different binary names. Should be Xorg -version (note: single dash, that's how Xorg's flag parser works).

Missing/wrong deps for current xserver. arch's makedepends runs to ~30 entries (mesa, libxkbfile, libxfont2, libxv, libxcvt, libxmu, libepoxy, xcb-util-*, libxshmfence, libunwind, systemd, meson, …). The current PR's deps list is partial and pre-meson.

Recommendation: treat this as a fresh attempt rather than a fix-up. The closest viable path is to mirror arch's recipe shape (meson-based, fetch from gitlab.fd.o, x86_64-only platforms, full dep list) — or borrow from nixpkgs which also drives the meson build. Happy to take this forward as a new PR superseding #7474 if a maintainer can confirm there's interest in shipping an Xorg server bottle; otherwise probably best to close as superseded-by-time.

For reference:

• arch PKGBUILD: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xorg-server/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD
• nixpkgs xorg-server: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix