Ian Romanick wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> Since we're not using something like automake to control the build, I >> was wondering if Mesa could make more use of GNU make conditionals and >> functions. There are a lot of different ways that Mesa can be built, >> and I believe it could be much more robust than it currently is. Right >> now we rely on the configs having sane settings and some carefully >> placed shell tests (see src/mesa/Makefile). >> >> This would have the effect to make the build non-portable from GNU >> make probably, but I really don't know anything about other make >> programs. This is already implied since there's some use in the build >> (see src/mesa/drivers/dri/Makefile.template). > > Makefile.template is only used for DRI drivers, not for core Mesa. > Right now DRI is only supported on Linux and FreeBSD. Both of these > platforms ship with GNU make by default. However, core Mesa (without > DRI) is supported on a ton of Unix flavors (HP-UX, AIX, older SunOS, > etc.) that do not ship with GNU make by default. > > That said, GNU make is available for all those platforms. I would > personally be in favor of requiring GNU make if it will help clean up > the Mesa build madness even one tiny bit.
I think src/mesa/Makefile is really the only ugly Makefile. The rest seem pretty reasonable. If that Makefile can be cleaned up substantially by using GNU make, I could probably live with that. If/when someone on a non-GNU-make system complains we'll try to help them out. I know of a few people still using Mesa on non-GNU systems. One way to improve the build process that I was going to look into sometime is to build static .a lib in each source subdir, then assemble the relevant .a files into the libGL.so in a reasonable place (like in drivers/x11 for the stand-alone Xlib Mesa). I'd also consider another build system like cmake. It's supposed to be fairly powerful and work on Windows too. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
