[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs: Python3 needed for Intel driver

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>> ---
>>  docs/install.html | 5 +++--
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/install.html b/docs/install.html
>> index 8b349c4..41a7d79 100644
>> --- a/docs/install.html
>> +++ b/docs/install.html
>> @@ -34,8 +34,9 @@
>>
>>  <h2>1.1 General</h2>
>>  <ul>
>> -<li><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> - Python is required.
>> -Version 2.6.4 or later should work.
>> +<li><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> -
>> +Python 3 is needed if building the Intel i965 driver.
>
> Actually that requirement has been forced on everyone for some unknown reason.

Specifically:

if test -z "$PYTHON3"; then
    if test ! -f "$srcdir/src/intel/genxml/gen9_pack.h"; then
        AC_MSG_ERROR([Python3 not found - unable to generate sources])
    fi
fi

Without checking that the intel vulkan stuff is being built. [Or
perhaps the regular i965 driver needs it anyways now too.]

  -ilia