rawhide report: 20110803 changes

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Aug 3 14:25:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > mesa-7.11-1.fc17
> > ----------------
> > * Tue Aug 02 2011 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 7.11-1
> > - Mesa 7.11
> > - Redo the driver arch exclusion, yet again.  Dear secondary arches: unless
> >  it's an on-motherboard driver like i915, all PCI drivers are to be built
> >  for all PCI arches.
> >
> >
> Dear X maintainers,
> 
> We would love to build all PCI drivers for all platforms if the drivers
> compiled for all secondary arches :-) See bug 713609 as an example.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713609

It's not reasonable for secondary arches to just disable parts of the 
distribution because they won't build. This isn't platform-dependent 
code, and if your architecture won't build it then your architecture 
needs to make it build.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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