Re: [Mesa-dev] TLS autodetection support in the X server

2010-12-23 Thread tom fogal
Dan Nicholson writes: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, tom fogal wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith writes: > >> On 12/22/10 02:30 PM, tom fogal wrote: > >> > >> We generally don't copy macros from the autoconf-archive into > >> xorg-macros, [. . .] Is there any reason not to do that here? Why > >>

Re: [Mesa-dev] TLS autodetection support in the X server

2010-12-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, tom fogal wrote: > Alan Coopersmith writes: >> On 12/22/10 02:30 PM, tom fogal wrote: >> >> We generally don't copy macros from the autoconf-archive into >> xorg-macros, we just use them as is - adding *.m4 files to >> packages that need them (especially when it's

Re: [Mesa-dev] TLS autodetection support in the X server

2010-12-22 Thread tom fogal
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 12/22/10 02:30 PM, tom fogal wrote: > > We generally don't copy macros from the autoconf-archive into > xorg-macros, we just use them as is - adding *.m4 files to > packages that need them (especially when it's just one or two > packages, not most of X.Org's 200+ pac

Re: [Mesa-dev] TLS autodetection support in the X server

2010-12-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/22/10 02:30 PM, tom fogal wrote: > I'm not really sure about any policy of adding a macro and requiring > it in another package; I had to bump the version number so that the X > server could be sure the macro exists. Not sure if that's the correct > thing to do. Please educate me. That is

[Mesa-dev] TLS autodetection support in the X server

2010-12-22 Thread tom fogal
Attached are two patches, one for util/macros and the second for xorg/xserver, which are aimed at getting --enable/--disable-glx-tls to be identified automatically, instead of defaulting to disabled. Lack of TLS leads to non-PIC code, which is particularly annoying in an SELinux environment. See: