[Mesa-dev] Please test the automake-gallium branch

Marcin Slusarz marcin.slusarz at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 09:46:21 PDT 2012


On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:52:28PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> This series of 105 patches finishes the automake conversion.
> 
> I don't think the series needs to be reviewed patch by patch, since
> large chunks are making nearly identical changes to different
> directories. Plus, incorrect changes in the build system should be
> detectable with testing. As such, I won't send the patches to the
> list.
> 
> The first patches are some clean ups that may be applicable to 9.0
> depending on when it's actually going to be released. The middle of
> the series is mostly mindless conversion. And the last of the series
> is removing gobs and gobs of crap like makedepend, MESA_PIC_FLAGS,
> VAAPI, and dead makefiles.
> 
> I've paid special attention to linking Gallium targets with gcc vs
> g++. Some drivers (like Nouveau) use C++ in the driver so always need
> to be linked with g++. Others (like r300) always require LLVM and need
> to be linked with g++. Others still, like softpipe, should be linked
> with g++ conditional on LLVM usage. I've tried to handle this, so
> testing with and without LLVM is important.
> 
> Please help me find problems now before it goes into master. Here's a
> branch. It's easy to test. If you don't test and I commit this in a
> week and break your stuff, I'm sorry, but you didn't test.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mattst88/mesa/log/?h=automake-gallium

With this branch, top level lib directory is not created, so it's impossible
to test mesa without installing it first.

Marcin


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