[Mesa3d-dev] static linking of 3.5 on irix

[Eric P. <eri...@di...>]

Hi there all.

First of all, a big thanks. You are doing something great for the free
software community.

In the next few weeks (counting out siggraph en EG CAS), I'll be playing
quite a bit with mesa, particularly OSmesa; eventually I'd like to have
it work in 12 bits per channel and have the channel depth specified in
the creation of the context. But I'm not there yet, I'm starting with
more modest goals, the first one of which being to get working static
libs on irix.

The first thing I stumbled on is that the MesaLib tar will not compile
without MesaDemos, which contains glut. No problem.

So, here's my first problem (more to come I promise ;) ). This one is
irix-specific. It seems that some objects are missing from the libGLU.a.
Is that possible?

I tried finding out what is happening, and it seems that
si-glu/libnurbs/internals/.libs/libNInt is built, and then _extracted_
(don't ask me why) back into .o's in (..)/.libs/libGLU.lax/libNInt.a/,
and then selected .o's end up included in the final libGLU.a . It seems
that some of those are missing, like for instance nurbsinterfac.o.

I have to say, I instantly admire anyone capable of dealing with
autoconf, libtool and their likes. They're definately a blessing to the
end user, but _man_ ... :-)

Ideas, anyone?

I have to say all of this is using irix cc, and I will try with gcc. I'm
doubtful that the problem will be solved though, as the gcc installation
on irix uses irix's native tools rather than GNU binutils..


Thanks,


-- 
eric plante, software developer, effects, discreet