On 17 July 2015 at 19:09, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> A few days ago I realised that BSD make (bmake) is available in the >> Archlinux repos, so I decided to give it a try for drm & mesa. >> >> While the former was working (minus a small patch) mesa is not so lucky. >> >> This series attempts to remove the GNU make idioms, with the first two >> being the base essential for a successful build from tarball. > > ... why should we care about non-GNU make? GNU make has nice features > that we want to use and we use them. I don't see the benefit. > A few reasons: - It will allow the OpenBSD people to use upstream mesa and devote that time to something more useful ? - Mostly a single pattern/issue/thinko seems to be at fault. - The rules already look a bit shaky :-)
Note that part from fixing the bmake build the rules are written to honour the relevant FLAGS and be consistent. Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
