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

Brian Paul brian.e.paul at gmail.com
Mon May 7 06:28:08 PDT 2012


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.

It's used for the legacy makefile system.  I can update the numbers
but we'll probably ditch that stuff before long.

-Brian


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