and the way of compiling dri Re: devel tree

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 00:13 +0100, Felix Kühling wrote:
> This is how I usually build DRI:
> 
> X.org without any DriDrivers. I use the Mesa version included in
> xc/extras. This way I get a slightly outdated libGL and liGLcore (server
> side software rendering for indirect rendering).
> Then I build Mesa from
> CVS HEAD with the target linux-dri-x86. This builds the bleeding edge
> versions of the 3D drivers independently of Xorg. 

yes, but libGL are ld libary (dynamic link) and when you build the
bleeding edge dri, you build against one second and newer libGL.so and
that can be not 100% compatible. 
Thats why this needs to be build against Xorg.



> This way I can work
> with the latest version of the 3D driver in Mesa HEAD and not worry
> about breaking the Xorg build system.
> 
> BTW, the snapshot builds work in the same way.
> 
> AFAIK this procedure is also documented in detail in the DRI Wiki (see
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building).
> 
> HTH,
>   Felix
> 
> Am Fr, den 17.12.2004 schrieb Sergio Monteiro Basto um 22:05:
> > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:33 -0700, Brian Paul wrote: 
> [snip]
> > Mesa's CVS head/trunk code, of course. If I want test lastest dri code ,
> > I need to compile xorg with Mesa's CVS head/trunk code.
> > 
> > the other 
> > "the way to build the newest DRI 
> > drivers is with the 'linux-dri-x86' target in Mesa CVS."
> > give me 2 differents libGLs and libGLUs
> > and what is the correct libGL ?
> > 
> > and GLUT why glut doesn't enter on xorg ?
> > 
> > Anyway, I think the DRI developers must understand, how Xorg compiles
> > Mesa else there dri drives becomes uncompilable (at least in my $ARCH)
> > or definitely dri drives are compiled out of Xorg, but in this case Mesa
> > miss the building of libGLcore!, so don't see how is it possible.
> > 
> > just left me, the first choice :)
> > end of though,
> > Conclusion if you agree, we could create the "trunk2" one copy of xorg
> > cvs with last Mesa. ie
> > mv http://cvs.freedesktop.org/dri/xc to
> > http://cvs.freedesktop.org/dri/xc.old
> > 
> > and copy http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc to
> > http://cvs.freedesktop.org/dri/xc
> > 
> > thanks for your time,
> > 
> [snip]
> 
-- 
Sérgio M.B.