Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [PATCH] dri: test whether the built drivers have unresolved symbols

[Dan N. <dbn...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Luca Barbieri <lu...@lu...> wrote:
>> Can we just put this program in the demos? Or at least just make it a
>> separate target (make test-link)? It seems excessive to make this part
>> of the default build path.
>
> The whole purpose is to run this as part of the standard build, so
> that the build fails if any driver is unloadable, (i.e. a modification
> to it was botched) and the tree hopefully doesn't get pushed to
> master.
>
> You can test it separately by just running glxinfo/glxgears, obviously.

For developers that makes a lot of sense, but I've never seen any
other projects impose this type of thing on regular users.

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Dan