On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ?
Mesa builds on OpenBSD already, as far as I know. The build system isn't holding back contributions. I still don't follow how making the build system compatible with non-GNU make is beneficial. > - Mostly a single pattern/issue/thinko seems to be at fault. > - The rules already look a bit shaky :-) I don't understand what these mean. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
