Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Continue to allow building src/glx on current distros

[Keith W. <kei...@go...>]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jesse Barnes <jb...@vi...> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:08:44 +0000
> Keith Whitwell <kei...@go...> wrote:
>
>> Jesse,
>>
>> Can you take a look at the attached patch?  I'd really like to be able
>> to build mesa and the DRI drivers on current distros (eg Ubuntu 9.10)
>> without having to pull in heaps of dependencies.  The patch adds
>> #ifdefs to protect against the newer DRI2 protocol changes, meaning I
>> can build-test linux-dri and related targets with just the
>> distro-supplied packages.
>
> As much as I hate #ifdefs, I think this is probably a reasonable thing
> to do.  Have you tested to confirm that it preserves both the old and
> new behavior when different proto headers are present?
>

As far as I can tell, it does.  In particular, with the new headers,
mesa builds the same libglapi.a with/without the patch.

I've committed it now, please let me know if there are any regressions.

Keith