On Don, 2002-11-07 at 18:04, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:22PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Don, 2002-11-07 at 17:38, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:32:03PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > > > Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > >On Don, 2002-11-07 at 16:56, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >>Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>These no longer get built by default. Any objections against the
> > > > >>>attached patch?
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>Actually if they're not built, I think we should ditch them from cvs.  
> > > > >>We're not working on them.
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >In that case I'd vote again for removing unused drivers etc. as well.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm ok with that too, as long as it simplifies rather than complicates the 
> > > > lives of people who are doing XFree merges.
> > > 
> > > I wouldn't like to remove the drivers. They don't cause any import conflicts
> > > and they're useful to those who want to start a DRI driver for another chipset.
> > 
> > They can trivially be added back in that case, and these libraries

...are useful...

> > for people who want to provide packages off the DRI tree.
>  
> Why remove them, if we end up having to put them back ? And for the libraries -
> they haven't changed since 4.2.0 - so why would people want to put them
> in packages ?

Because they're in the same package as libGL, it would make life a bit
easier, but like I said I'll cope.


> > Anyway, back to the point of my patch: even in the context of the
> > XFree86 tree, does it make sense only to build these libraries when all
> > libraries are built, even if the user explicitly wants to build them?
> 
> Like I said, Check with Eric. I know he added a BuildLibraries to
> the XThrStub one, so maybe there's an underlying build problem somewhere
> else that needs to be fixed before we can apply this.

IMHO that should be handled somewhere in config/ then instead of the
Imakefile preventing this where it works.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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