[Mesa-dev] Mesa 7.8.2 release?

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, tom fogal <tfogal at alumni.unh.edu> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM, tom fogal <tfogal at alumni.unh.edu> wrote:
>> > Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:
>> >> > If there are no objections, I will clean up the release notes and
>> >> > make the release tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. =C2=A0It looks like a
>> >> > few things got cherry-picked in the last week, so I'm assuming
>> >> > everything is in that people care about.
>> >
>> > OSMesa, which appears to get built by default --with-driver=3Dxlib, is
>> > broken on darwin w/ current 7.8 HEAD [1]:
> [snip -- undefined refs]
>> > Though I'm guessing this came from the symbol visibility changes
>> > (addition of -fvisibility=hidden), I don't have the time before
>> > tomorrow (or even this week :\) to take a real look.
>>
>> This is also the case on linux.
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D28305
>
> Ahh, yeah, I guessed as much -- errors linking shlibs on OS X usually
> manifest as errors linking apps on Linux -- but I hadn't tested as
> much.
>
>> I think the "solution" here is to stop linking OSMesa against GL and
>> instead just pull in libmesa and friends all the time. In addition
>> to avoiding the symbol visibility issues, it makes OSMesa more
>> standalone, which is what people want anyway.
>
> Well, personally, I'd rather get glX* + OSMesa* + `normal' gl fqns in
> one lib, but I admit I'm probably the only one...

I think it should be the same. The only difference is that you don't
get file size savings because you have libmesa and friends built into
both libGL and libOSMesa. But I've never really used OSMesa, so I
could be dead wrong.

>> I have a patch I was working on but haven't tested. I'll try to wrap
>> it up tonight and shoot it over to you for a test. I'm attaching what
>> I have right now if you want to play around with it.
>
> Thanks.  The osmesa/Makefile changes didn't apply, so I did them
> manually.. which was very odd, because I don't see how the patch is
> different from what you sent.  Anyway, the attached patch fixes the
> problem; I can build both xlib and standalone OSMesa on 10.5 w/ it.

Cool. That diff was against master from like two months ago. I think
that's all that's needed, but let me see if there's any other clean up
that can be added.

--
Dan