Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2018, 14:47 -0500 schrieb Jan Vesely: > > > You can, that's what I've done as well. 0.49 just has a much nicer > > mechanism (and one that presumably distro packagers can use more > > easily). > > I don't understand why distros are such a big focus. Don't they all > have scripts to build packages? Why would volatility of configuration > options be a problem for them? > Usually they have, and at least in Debian when you build the package for the package archive you also use a build environment that pulls exactly in what is needed for building the package, so using the wrong version because of some automatism usually point to some actual bug either in the package itself or in the dependencies of the required packages.
FWIW, I also don't understand the urge to remove the automake build system files, they account for less then 1% of line count in the source tree, Emil offered to maintain the build system in a way that nobody who doesn't want to deal with has to touch it (which is different from old drivers where changes to the core might actually require touching these drivers too), and there are people out there like you who have a technical reason not to switch to meson (yet). Best, Gert _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
