fixing the recurring Mesa build problem

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Fri Oct 27 09:07:31 PDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:18 -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> 
> >>2. In the xserver tree, change the Makefile.am files under GL/mesa/ to 
> >>include the new 'sources' file.  For example, 
> >>xserver/GL/mesa/main/Makefile.am will contain:
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>include sources
> >>
> >>nodist_libmain_la_SOURCES = $(MAIN_SOURCES)
> > 
> > 
> > I'm afraid I've discovered a bootstrap problem with this: The include
> > directive is interpreted by automake, not make. But the symlinks for the
> > sources files generally don't exist yet when automake runs. Any ideas
> > how to solve this would be appreciated.
> 
> Can we change the "include sources" line to something like "include 
> $(PATH_TO_MESA)/sources"?

I'm afraid not, as the path to Mesa is only known as of when configure
runs.


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