[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Overhaul of Gallium configure options

[Jose Fonseca]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 18:25 +0200, Marek Olšák wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This series reworks some of our configure options to make Gallium
> > easier to configure.
> > 
> > First, there is a new option --with-gallium-drivers=DIRS, which
> > replaces the current heap of options --enable-gallium-DRIVER.
> > --disable-gallium is removed as well, instead,
> > --with-gallium-drivers= without parameters should be used to
> > disable Gallium.
> > 
> > --enable-gallium-egl is removed. having --enable-egl and
> > --with-gallium-drivers=somedriver is sufficient.
> > 
> > --with-state-trackers is removed as well. The list of state
> > trackers is automatically deduced from the --enable-API options
> > (the vega,egl state trackers) and --with-driver=dri|xlib (the
> > dri,glx state trackers). Some state trackers lack an enable flag
> > now, so these two have been added to make the list complete:
> > --enable-xorg and --enable-d3d1x.
> > 
> > In order to be able to "git bisect run" through this change, you
> > can specify both the old and new options at the same time. Those
> > that are unsupported are ignored.
> > 
> > Other than that, I am enabling r600g by default and removing r300g
> > and r600g from scons. I am not a fan of having multiple build
> > systems and most people prefer autoconf anyway. It's not like
> > anybody needs to build those drivers on Windows.
> 
> I did use r600g + scons for the little bit of work I did there, and
> if I
> went back to it, it would continue to be with scons...
> 
> Is there a significant cost to you having it there?
> 
> Keith

Ditto. I've been building r600g on linux with scons too -- scons it's much better for continuous integration/testing, given one doesn't need to do make clean everytime, just to ensure the dependencies are computed correctly. 

Given that autoconf will never support MSVC, if people don't like multiple build systems, then autoconf+gmake is definely not the one to bet on.

I've been (slowly) trying to get scons to build everything, and plan to do so. So that scons can be a viable alternative eventually.

Jose