mesa and xserver question

[Dan Nicholson]

On 12/5/06, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:10, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > Some time ago there was a thread ,,fixing the recurring Mesa build
> > problem'' trying to fix small problem with building xserver with different
> > mesa versions.
> >
> > I have a basic question - why Mesa sources are needed to build xserver?
> > xserver build stuff includes some mesa source files and later links them
> > into non-public libtool library and uses it - why all these required files
> > are not in separate public mesa library which later would be linked with
> > xserver?
>
> Because it's not a stable ABI that we feel like publishing, and in principle
> we should be able to build the software indirect renderer from Mesa directly.

Kristian Høgsberg mentioned a while back about putting this into Mesa.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-August/017787.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-March/013872.html

There are some patches in that thread.

--
Dan