Re: [Dri-devel] Need assistance compiling mesa-4-0-branch

[Pawel S. <pa...@th...>]

On 2001.10.25 10:25 Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> Actually I just bypassed it by putting in a #define in host.def (thanks
> warp@d.o.) and a few extra twiddles, and it compiled and installed just
> fine. Thanks.
> [...]
> On 25 Oct 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried copying it to $ProjectRoot/lib instead?

I wonder: why is this not documented? More, why is it not possible to run 
a ./configure script that will detect and setup all needed things? IMHO, 
Answer "you should know what you are doing" is only an excuse: if a 
certain setup algorithm cannot be expressed via a script, there is 
somethin wrong with the algorithm. This also makes reproducing the results 
more difficult - instead of saying: I did "cvs co dri; ./configure && make 
World.LOG && make install" one has to explain "I did cvs co dri, run lndir 
...., edited host.def; oh, I applied extra patches from xxx, then I got an 
error during the compilation so I copied binaries from A to B, and finally 
I got something". 
I am interested in mach64 development (apparently same reason as most 
people: a laptop) and could contribute some of my spare time on testing, 
but it seems I should start from spending my time on testing the 
compilation, not the driver itself...

Opinions?

/Pawel
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Pawel Salek, Theoretical Chemistry, SCFAB, Stockholm
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