On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Dave Witbrodt <dawit...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I was updating my Mesa build setup, having not looked carefully at it for
> about a year, and I became confused about the version of the upstream git
> HEAD. Running 'grep -C 1 VERSION Makefile' gives me:
>
> PACKAGE_VERSION=8.1-devel
> PACKAGE_DIR = Mesa-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)
> PACKAGE_NAME = MesaLib-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)
>
> This looks right, since I know that version 8.0 was released quite some time
> ago. Running 'grep -B 4 MESA_VERSION configs/default' gives me this:
>
> # Version info
> MESA_MAJOR=8
> MESA_MINOR=0
> MESA_TINY=0
> MESA_VERSION = $(MESA_MAJOR).$(MESA_MINOR).$(MESA_TINY)
>
> I am not a developer (yet), so it's not even clear to me that the env.
> variable MESA_VERSION is even used anywhere. The only external consequences
> (that I can find) seem unimportant:
>
> $ for f in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gl{,u}.pc; do \
> echo " File: $f"; cat "$f" | grep Version; echo; done
> File: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gl.pc
> Version: 8.0.0
>
> File: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/glu.pc
> Version: 8.0.0
>
> Not exactly earth-shattering. I just thought I would mention it in case
> someone cares.
It's used for the legacy makefile system. I can update the numbers
but we'll probably ditch that stuff before long.
-Brian
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