[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] configure.ac: describe what all the LIBDRM_*REQUIRED macros mean

[Emil Velikov]

On 2 February 2017 at 17:26, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:15:47 AM PST Chad Versace wrote:
>> On Thu 02 Feb 2017, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>> >
>> > They are versions of the respective libdrm package. They are _not_ the
>> > version of libdrm[.so] required for driver X.
>> >
>> > Doing the latter will lead to combinatoric explosion and in all fairness
>> > things will likely be broken most of the time.
>> >
>> > To make things even more confusing the kernel UAPI is provided by libdrm
>> > itself.
>> >
>> > Cc: Vinson Lee <vlee at freedesktop.org>
>> > Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>> > ---
>> > Ken, you/Chad have things spot on. Yet semes like other people struggle
>> > deeply with these.
>>
>> Actually, I agree with airlied and imirkin. I made a mistake when
>> I bumped LIBDRM_REQUIRED.
>
> Me too...
Fwiw the patch was correct, just that the behaviour did no match the
expectations ;-)
But that was fixed so, everything is back to normal.

Emil