[Mesa3d-users] build difficulties really necessary?

[Ethan G. <ee...@fa...>]

I'm trying to build mesa with:
 $ make linux-fbdev

The build process enters src/gallium/auxiliary/draw where the makedepend command aparently fails. makedepend has it's stderr redirected to /dev/null so I had to do a fair bit of grepping and thinking to get any useful error out of it. Along the way I noticed mention of makedepend in a doc file, but that was fbdev-dri.html. There's no dri on this particular box and I had trouble finding the plain fbdev build amidst all the instructions for a dri/miniglx build, which in turn weren't that easy to find compared to the instructions to build an X or OSMesa build, so by this time I was strictly filtering out any mention of files relating to dri or X, so of course I ignored it several times. What are build instructions needed for Gallium (and, I suspect, all of Mesa) doing only in a file pertaining to fbdev-dri anyway?

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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