[Mesa-dev] Version info in configs/default says 8.0.0

Dave Witbrodt dawitbro at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 6 07:47:53 PDT 2012


I was updating my Mesa build setup, having not looked carefully at it 
for about a year, and I became confused about the version of the 
upstream git HEAD.  Running 'grep -C 1 VERSION Makefile' gives me:

PACKAGE_VERSION=8.1-devel
PACKAGE_DIR = Mesa-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)
PACKAGE_NAME = MesaLib-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)

This looks right, since I know that version 8.0 was released quite some 
time ago.  Running 'grep -B 4 MESA_VERSION configs/default' gives me this:

# Version info
MESA_MAJOR=8
MESA_MINOR=0
MESA_TINY=0
MESA_VERSION = $(MESA_MAJOR).$(MESA_MINOR).$(MESA_TINY)

I am not a developer (yet), so it's not even clear to me that the env. 
variable MESA_VERSION is even used anywhere.  The only external 
consequences (that I can find) seem unimportant:

$ for f in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gl{,u}.pc; do \
echo "  File:  $f"; cat "$f" | grep Version; echo; done
   File:  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gl.pc
Version: 8.0.0

   File:  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/glu.pc
Version: 8.0.0

Not exactly earth-shattering.  I just thought I would mention it in case 
someone cares.


FYI,
Dave W.


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