[PATCH xserver] config: remove --with-dri-driver-path option, use dri.pc #29740

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 24/09/2010 15:56, Jon TURNEY a écrit :
> On 23/09/2010 23:43, Keith Packard wrote:
>> What's the state of this patch?  Seems like it should default to
>> whatever the old default was in the absence of a dri.pc file? Or is
>> everyone happy with the patch as-is?
> 
> I am affected by this, as currently cygwin has no dri.pc file, as mesa
> can't be configured to build swrast_dri.so if you don't have DRM (see
> [1]), so I have to take special steps to build swrast_dri.so.
> 
> That said, this change makes perfect sense, so I guess I just need to
> take more special steps to create dri.pc as well :-)

I'll pipe in to add that this bit us (Gentoo) in the past as well.

For some unknown reason, DRI support was disabled in our packages for
HPPA and alpha. When swrast's build was moved from the server back into
mesa, the situation got painful for us.

It turns out DRI works (as in: builds) fine on those arches, so we can
build mesa's swrast and the server just fine, but the situation was more
complex than I anticipated.

I don't quite remember the details anymore, but maybe something could be
improved there?

Food for thoughts...

Rémi