On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:33:19 +0200 Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:23:50 +0000 > "Ucan, Emre (ADITG/SW1)" <eu...@de.adit-jv.com> wrote: > > > The required version only corresponds to version of mesa implementation. > > This mesa version requirement causes configure errors, > > when weston is configured for a different egl implementation than mesa. > > Because the version of the egl drivers are not alligned > > to the mesa version. > > Yes, this is sad. When Mesa started providing a egl.pc file and others, > it encoded the Mesa version in them, not the EGL version. I've tried to > ask around about this and people mostly do not care. I think someone > even said that other implementations should just advertise Mesa version > numbers in their .pc files. > > Furthermore, Mesa does not install any .pc file that would be specific > to Mesa, which means that egl.pc et al. are the only way to impose > version requirements on Mesa at build time. > > We should also note, that .pc version requirements are build time > requirements, not necessarily runtime requirements. That's hard to > remember, and especially tricky with EGL and GL libs that have several > implementations. > > Often binaries are built against Mesa, but then deployed with a > proprietary EGL/GL stack. This is probably a major reason why people > don't care that egl.pc encodes Mesa version. If you hacked Weston to > use some proprietary APIs, this won't work. > > > Therefore, I deleted the version controlling for egl, > > so that weston can be configured for a different egl implementation. > > Because of all the above, I will not object to this patch, so: > Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paala...@collabora.co.uk> > Hi Emre, thanks for the poke. Indeed, it's been a while without any comment. Pushed: 062edf2..7d967da master -> master Thanks, pq
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