On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Joe Smith <stop...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed a discrepancy in the Xorg documentation that's been causing me some > confusion: > > At http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide: > When using the build.sh script, it says: > "If you want to include Mesa/OpenGL support in the X server, you will need > unpack the Mesa source code and pass the directory of the Mesa sources to the > build.sh script." > And you pass the mesa directory like this: > -m path-to-mesa-sources-for-xserver : full path to Mesa sources > > Also, in the build.sh script, building the mesa sources is commented out, > like this: #build mesa mesa. > > While at http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git: > The mesa sources are built before the xserver, and the sources directory is > *not* passed to the xserver build directives. > > So the questions are: > 1) Does mesa need to be built separately, as demonstrated in the second link? > If so, why is it commented out in build.sh? > 2) Should the --with-mesa-source parameter always be used, and if so, why is > it not used in the second link?
Mesa should be built before the server, and it's no longer necessary to use the -m/--with-mesa-source flag. The server will pick up the installed headers it needs from mesa. The first page is out of date. I have no idea why it's commented out in build.sh. You can certainly uncomment it and give it a whirl. Building mesa should be about as simple as ./configure. Development/git has a little more info about that. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
