Dan Nicholson wrote: > This patch set adds initial autoconf support for Mesa. Previous > discussion was that full autotools was not desired. This approach is > less invasive by working in conjunction with the current Mesa configs > system. The configure script simply populates the file configs/autoconf, > allowing the user to build with `make autoconf', just like any of the > other targets. [...]
My initial reaction was God no, not autoconf, but I'll try to stay open-minded. It sounds like you've come up with a minimal/simplified application of autoconf that shouldn't be too invasive or ugly. Give me some time to grab your repo and look things over. One of the biggest problems I had with automake/autoconf/etc in the past was poor support on non-gnu platforms. If the current config-based system can co-exist with the new autoconf approach, that problem should be avoided. I realize not a lot of people are still running Mesa on AIX, Solaris, etc. but it really sucks when the code is amenable to your platform but the build system prevents you from actually using it. The config-based build system certainly isn't perfect, but it's simple and has allowed people to get Mesa up and running on new systems (like bluegene) with little effort. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
