[Mesa-dev] Building the xa-vmwgfx target

[Thomas Hellström]

On 9/7/12 10:39 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> I'm converting the remaining static Makefile to automake, so xa and
> xa-vmwgfx is on my todo list.
>
> I'm very confused by the build though. It seems that the xa state
> tracker is built and linked into a single .o file, which is then
> statically linked into xa-vmwgfx. This is reasonably sensible, but
> then we also build a libxatracker.so file which is installed to the
> system that nothing links to.
>
> Can I switch this to xa-vmwgfx linking to a shared libxatracker.so? Or
> perhaps just linking it statically and not installing a libxatracker
> file at all. Either of these seem more like the right thing to do, but
> not being familiar with this code I thought it better to ask.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
The xa-vmwgfx target actually builds libxatracker.so, which is a library 
used
by external applications, like libGL.so, but currently it works only 
with vmware.

/Thomas