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

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Rémi Cardona <remi at gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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?

Hmm, I don't really get it. If you can't build a DRI-enabled Mesa, you
won't have dri.pc and your server won't have DRI support. What part is
painful?

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Dan