[PATCH 0/2] Keep generated glapi sources in mesa

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Thu Feb 14 09:14:09 PST 2008


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Dan Nicholson wrote:
| The glapi source files for the xserver's GLX module are currently
| generated in the mesa tree and then manually merged into the the xserver
| tree. This step in the GLX build is error prone as the files can easily
| become unsynchronized from the rest of the glapi in mesa.
|
| This patchset changes the mesa build to generate the files in a standard
| location in the mesa tree. Likewise, the xserver glx build has the
| necessary files symlinked in by symlink-mesa.sh at build time.
|
| I put the files in src/glx/x11 in mesa with the rest of the glx sources.
| I'm not sure if this is the best place.

We used to do this before, back in the pre-modular days.  The problem,
if I recall, was that when changes were made to GLX protocol code people
had to keep their Mesa and X.org trees in lock-step.  Everyone hated that.

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