[Mesa-dev] Moving amdgpu/addrlib into a git submodule

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > tbh, git submodules are more annoying than they need to be, and I'm
> > not really terribly excited to use that for something that is a build
> > dependency.  Maybe just move it into libdrm instead?
> >
>
> I've only had to use git submodules once with spice project, and it
> was a nightmare. It makes packaging etc a real pita.
>
> Alternatives are something like a fetch external sources script,
> that does git submodules but does it better, you'll see Vulkan-CTS
> etc use something like that, it would have to be integrated with
> the build system a bit better though.
>

This isn't a plug for submodules, but *please* don't base anything on the
Vulkan CTS fetch_sources script.  We've had no end of trouble with their
git hacks.
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