[Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Mesa3d-users] configure problem (was Missing GLX extensions)

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

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:21:00AM -0700, Brian Paul wrote:
> > Using that the Makefile error goes away, but you still can't compile on
> > Irix. The compiler flag to update dependencies on Irix is '-MDupdate', not
> > '-MD'. I don't know anything about autoconf, so I don't know how to change
> > the configure parts, but just replacing -MD with -MDupdate in all
> > Makefile.in files makes it work. I just don't know if that also works on
> > Linux, can somebody try that? If not, can somebody who knows a little more
> > about autoconf/configure add that as a platform-dependent option?

I've finished this in the CVS trunk (Mesa 3.5). The configure script now
checks a platform-dependent list of possible dependency update switches to
find one that works. If it finds one that is not -MD it overrides the
normal build rules generated by automake. These rules are held in the file
$(top_srcdir)/common_rules.make which every Makefile.am includes.

Unfortunately there is no way to dynamically turn of dependency tracking
alltogether because automake hard-codes it into the build rules. This means
if the configure script doesn't find a way to do dependency tracking but you
need it (probably because you're building from CVS - dependency information
is removed in the distribution package) the build process will blow.

Dirk: Can you check out Mesa 3.5 and see if it compiles on your Irix machine
now?

Hope this helped,
Sven 
-- 
"Would the All-Seeing Eye please look in my direction?"
 [ KeyID........: 0xC297FEAB ]
 [ Fingerprint..: FEA5 0F93 7320 3F39 66A5  AED3 073F 2D5F C297 FEAB ]