Thomas Tanner wrote: > > On 14-Jul-99 Keith Whitwell wrote: > > I note in the current src/... Makefile.am's there is the line: > > > > AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = no-dependencies > > > > which stops the use of gcc-generated dependencies. My questions are: > > > > why? > > Brian's cc on IRIX doesn't support gcc-dependencies > so I have disabled it for now. > > > what should we be using instead? > > Either wait for automake 1.5, which will support automatic dependency > tracking for other compilers as well or force Brian to use GCC ;-) > > So far automake assumes that the maintainers/developers of a package > use GCC and GNU make, which are able to generate the dependeny > files in .deps/. > When the maintainer releases a new version using "make dist" automake > removes all GNU specific stuff from the Makefiles and includes > the previously generated .deps files in the tarball so that > the package can be compiled on all supported (non-GNU) platforms. > > Can we take it for granted that all Mesa developers have > GCC and GNU make installed? I don't know about that, but I encourage the Mesa developers to compile and test Mesa with whatever non-GNU compilers you might also have. It helps to find compilation and runtime problems. At my previous job I was able to test Mesa on about 6 flavors of Unix. It helped to ensure portability, that's for sure. -Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Paul Avid Technology / Softimage [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mesa-dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.mesa3d.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
