[Mesa-dev] [RFC] Convert mesa to automake/libtool

[Corbin Simpson]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2010 09:46:15 -0700, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> I'm putting forward this request completely understanding your
>> position why you don't want automake and libtool in your project.
>> However, I think that mesa has outgrown the static Makefiles approach
>> for a number of reasons. For a project that's grown to the complexity
>> of mesa, I believe you need something that is more flexible and robust
>> than the current system can provide. Eric (and I think Corbin, too)
>> has a branch adding automake and libtool to the mesa repo.
>>
>>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~anholt/mesa/log/?h=automake
>
> Yeah, I got burned out on that work because the initial change is huge.
> My intention for that branch was to get it to the point that it could
> replace the static Makefiles and squash-merge it (sadly, the history is
> completely unbisectable and has been sloppily rebased a couple of
> times.).
>
> The separate demos repo was a step towards making that work less
> intrusive (and because demos in the main repo has bothered me since I
> started out packaging Mesa).  After that, several of the libraries could
> go away, and that branch would be much closer to done.
>
> I completely agree with the rest of Dan's reasons for using automake.
> In particular, it's standard, reliable, well documented, and we have a
> lot of expertise in it among Mesa developers.  I'm sick of the Mesa
> build process for developers and casual followers having to start with
> "make clean".

I completely agree with these gentlemen.

My automake branch is a bit further than Eric's, but it's more or less
invalid now. It could build Gallium DRI drivers though.

~ C.

-- 
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Corbin Simpson
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