Currently makedepend is used by the Mesa Makefile-based build system, but not required.
Unfortunately, not having it makes dependency resolution non-existent, which is a source of subtle bugs, and is a rarely tested configuration, since all Mesa developers likely have it installed. Furthermore some idioms require dependency resolution to work at all, such as making headers depend on generated files. --- configure.ac | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 2b8296d..e75224d 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ AC_CHECK_PROGS([MAKE], [gmake make]) AC_PATH_PROG([MKDEP], [makedepend]) AC_PATH_PROG([SED], [sed]) +if test "x$MKDEP" = "x"; then + AC_MSG_ERROR([makedepend is required to build Mesa]) +fi + dnl Our fallback install-sh is a symlink to minstall. Use the existing dnl configuration in that case. AC_PROG_INSTALL -- 1.7.0.4 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
