Re: [Mesa3d-dev] back to autoconf 2.13

[Sven M. H. <pe...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:20PM -0700, Brian Paul wrote:
> "Sven M. Hallberg" wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I have rearranged the configure.in to work with autoconf v2.13 again.
> > Unfortunately it is now no longer possible to use configure to compile a Mesa
> > with missing GLUT and/or demo source directories. However, one might consider
> > making those seperate packages, thus giving them their own configure script...
> > But that's another story.
> 
> As sophisticated as autoconf is, I'm surprised that you can't
> detect whether or not src-glut/, demos/, etc. exist at compile time.

Well, the problem lies in dynamically generating the list of Makefiles to be
created, depending on which directories are present. With the current autoconf
you must pass the entire list to a single call of AC_OUTPUT. The only
way for a dynamic list is to use a variable and pass that one. I guess that
would work with autoconf, _but_ it doesn't with automake because automake
parses configure.in for the call to AC_OUTPUT and if it finds AC_OUTPUT($list)
assumes it should create a file $list.in. *g*

In the new autoconf you have the required flexibility because it uses
a dynamic list internally, i.e. you specify any files to be created by means
of repetitive calls to a certain macro (AC_CONFIG_FILES I think) and call
AC_OUTPUT without any arguments. The new automake is of course aware of
AC_CONFIG_FILES.


> > Anyways, my first show at building died with cpp unable to find
> > GL/include/glcore.h, included from glheader.h. I have not been able to find
> > that file anywhere, however my old locate db indicated it used to reside
> > in the Mesa src/ dir. Am I missing something or is this a bug?
> 
> As Keith said, it's in Mesa/include/GL/internal/glcore.h.

Yes, wasn't able to reach the CVS server last weekend, updating right now.
Just missed that CVS switch. Actually the compile is running now and everything
appears to be fine, at least as far as the include error is concerned.


-Sven

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