On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:25 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:

> Previously the XWin build required a live internet connection (and
> Khronos's servers to not be down for maintenance, etc) in order to
> download the (W)GL specs to autogenerate files from.  Even if you
> weren't building XWin, this broke distcheck.
> 
> It's a fairly upsetting diffstat, but not being able to distcheck on
> the train makes me sad-in-pants.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <[email protected]>
> 

There is a requirement for the build to not rely on internet connection,
a similar
issue was raised during the DocBook/XML conversion, as some obscure low
level tools  were using it.

In addition, you get version control on the spec from which the wrappers
are generated.

Reviewed-by: Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]>

I can generate the wrappers on Debian, so looks good.

Tested-by: Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]>

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