Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [PATCH] build GLX-client libGL.so in Mesa tree

[Eric A. <et...@lc...>]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:33, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > Currently in order to build a libGL.so that acts as a GLX client, you need to 
> > build it in the X tree.  Current DRI drivers will not work with a libGL from 
> > a too-old X, but the linux-dri target does not build a libGL.  Users and 
> > distributors would like to be able to update their client-side libs without 
> > rebuilding all of X.
> > 
> > The attached patch modifies the build configs to build the appropriate glx 
> > subdirectory depending on whether an X-based or solo-based build is 
> > requested.  You will also need the following overlay package:
> > 
> > http://freedesktop.org/~ajax/glx-overlay.tar.gz
> > 
> > Unpack that from within your Mesa dir, apply this patch, and 'make linux-dri'.  
> > You should get a libGL.so.1.2 in lib/.
> > 
> > The overlay imports lib/GL/glx from the X tree into src/glx/x11, and 
> > programs/Xserver/GL/dri/sarea.h into include/GL/internal.  Besides build 
> > config changes nothing in the Mesa code was changed.  The build system 
> > changes are all of 5 lines, so this shouldn't be too controversial.
> > 
> > Please test.  I suspect the linux-dri-x86 target doesn't work yet, and 
> > probably sparc doesn't either.  The linux-dri target was tested with the 
> > usual suspects (glxgears, quake3) and seems solid.
> 
> There has been some discussion about this in the past, but I'm generally in 
> favor of Mesa being able to build the full set of client libraries and would 
> like to see something like this in the Mesa tree.

I know I would love to see it, and given the push towards splitting up
X.Org, this would fit in excellently with those plans.

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Eric Anholt                                et...@lc...          
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