Where is libGLcore.so ?

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:03 PM,  <pcpa at mandriva.com.br> wrote:
>  > Quoting Ritesh Sood <riteshsood at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  >> So now my question is, where is libGLcore.so, and what am i missing ?
>  >
>  >  You need to run "make glcore glcore-install" in the mesa build.
>  >
>  >  But I believe something must be done about it, as now there is a
>  > cyclic dependency of X Server and mesa for the glcore targets.
>
>  I think that's just how it's going to be because glcore depends on the
>  xserver and internal parts of mesa. The alternative is to go back to
>  pulling in nearly all of the mesa source into the build. This broke
>  often, and now all that's needed is a few files to build GLX.
>
>  You're best to just treat GLcore like it's a separate package, just
>  that it happens to use the same mesa sources. I have a patch
>  pending[1] that should make the process like this:
>
>  1. Build mesa DRI using --with-driver=dri

This step shouldn't depend on the X server.

>  2. Build xserver
>  3. Build mesa GLcore using --with-driver=glcore

I haven't done a build from scratch recently, but with the glcore
changes, we should be able to just say

  1. Build X server
  2. Build mesa with GLcore and dri drivers

Also, I was never a big fan of symlinking the generated dispatch files
from mesa, I'd rather just generate them from mesa straight into the X
server tree and the commit that.  It's rare enough that we do this
that and only developers need to do this.  Considering that this will
break the compile time dependency on mesa sources, I think that's a
worthwhile tradeoff, even if we'll have to also duplicate
glcontextmodes.[ch].

cheers,
Kristian