[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/20] Automake cleanups and Cygwin fixes

[Jon TURNEY]

On 04/03/2014 21:12, Emil Velikov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> An interesting cleanup series inspired by Jon Turney's tinderbox.
> 
> Highlights:
>  - Cleanup unused configure.ac variables dating from the static makefile days.
>  - Use platform specific library extension for links generation.
>  - Move all the link generation in three files.
>  - Make check fix when building without direct rendering.
>  - A few cosmetic configure.ac fixes.
>  - And last but not least, always build mesa shared. Most of the build system
> assumed that already, so update the warning messages, and cleanup configure.
> 
> An interesting point brought my Jon, is that Cygwin needs to link all the dri
> drivers agaist libglapi, which mesa explicitly does not do. AFAICS the idea
> is that the correct glapi should be loaded (statically or dl_open'ed) by the
> GL provider prior to managing the dri.
> 
> Does anyone know the reason behind this ?

Note that xserver 1.14 and prior have their own glapi implementation, which a
loaded driver would be using.

> The series can be found in the cygwin-fixes branch in my repo at
> https://github.com/evelikov/Mesa/
> 
> Review and comments are greatly appreciated.

except for my NAK for 12/20, Reviewed-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk>