On Dec 9, 2007 6:42 AM, José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:48:59 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2007 12:48 PM, Alex Neundorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: ... > > Maybe the most important is that autoconf is really mature, well > > understood and supports tons of platforms. People will know how to work > > with it because it's used everywhere. > > By "tons of platforms" you mean tons of Unix variants. AFAIK, autotools > still require shell scripts. Mesa is built on more than those. No, I > don't think autoconf is even remotely close to being called cross- > platform.
When I look into mesa/configs, all I see is config files for a ton of Unix variants anyway. Half of them are to cover the combinatorial explosion of Linux variants: different compilers, static/dynamic, debug/no-debug, etc. It's insane. It's nice that mesa is cross platform, but I don't see those non-shell capable platforms in mesa/configs. One of our (Red Hat) biggest time sinks when rebasing to a new mesa release is going through the bunch of patches we have to the mesa config files and making sure they apply and figure out where in the hierarchy of config files the DRI_LIBDIR or similar variable is hidden in this release. Dan's proposal to just use autoconf *is* very minimal and solves this problem in a nice standardized way. And support for platforms that doesn't like shell scripts can coexists with the autoconf config file in the same way that the 100 different unix configs currently coexist. From looking through the patches, it looks like a good solution. A few commets: - it would be nice if we didn't have to keep config.guess, config.sub and install-sh in git, but I guess there is no good way of autogenerating these when no using automake. - I think ./configure should create the configs/current link when it's run so the normal ./configure; make sequence works cheers, Kristian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
