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

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Feb 14 09:34:31 PST 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:14:09AM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 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.

I'm not really seeing the difference between then and now.
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