Hi Dan, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I was wondering if anyone would be interested in autotooling > (autoconf, automake, libtool) Mesa. I'd be willing to supply a patch > to do this (some can be copied from the xserver), but I thought I'd > check first to see if it would even be accepted before I started > working on it.
I'm not interested. > The current Mesa build definitely works with what's in configs/*, but > it's not always robust, If you've got specific concerns I'm interested in hearing them. > and it's difficult to understand what's going > on if you're not familiar with it. Well, it's just plain old Makefiles. > While the autotools definitely have > their flaws, they're at least well understood. And since many of the > developers here also work on Xorg and DRM, it would make sense to me > to use a common build system. > > Let me know what you think. We used to have automake support in Mesa but it was a PITA. First it seemed to seldom work on non GNU/Linux-like environments (AIX, SunOS, IRIX, etc). Second, I found it very difficult to maintain, fix and customize. I wasn't interested in wading through thousands of lines of shell scripts and I could never depend on anyone else to help out. I could go on with a long list of automake complaints but I'll spare you. If I were to adopt a new build system I'd look at CMake or SCons or something like that but I'm happy with the current system. Of course, if you want to create your own branch of mesa with autoconf you can do so, but I won't touch it. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
