<![CDATA[Can somebody hit the Mesa maintainers with the clue-stick, please?]]>I’ve been waiting a while for the release of Mesa 7.0.2 as 7.0.1 doesn’t include support for the G33 chipset in my motherboard, and as a result I’ve been running with a git snapshot, something which always makes me a little uneasy. It’s finally been released, but alas when I build (at “make install” specifically) I get an error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/Mesa-7.0.2/src/glw’
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `glw.pc.in’, needed by `glw.pc’. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Mesa-7.0.2/src/glw’
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Mesa-7.0.2/src’
make: *** [install] Error 1

The problem is quite basic; The “glw.pc.in” file is MIA because it hasn’t been included in the source tarball. This is in itself fairly annoying but I take issue for two reaons: firstly, this error should have happened during the initial “make” and not “make install”. Secondly, obviously nobody tested whether Mesa could be built and installed from the tarball before it was officially released. This latter is really stupid.

On the plus side, with the 7.0.2 release Mesa finally has support for “make DESTDIR=… install”.

Edit 19/11/07: This is what “glw.pc.in” is supposed to look like. There doesn’t seem to be a directly downloadable version.

Edit 12/01/08: Entry in the bug database. Fixed for 7.0.3 apparently (not yet released).

Edit 06/04/08: Mesa 7.0.3 has finally been released (after 5 months), and yes, it fixes this problem. It should not have taken 5 months to fix this problem. Not being able to “make install” is serious.

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