Upgrade Mesa to latest Mesa-CVS?

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Fri Aug 4 16:43:53 UTC 2006


Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Adam Jackson <ajackson <at> redhat.com> writes:
>>>> Requires moderately non-trivial fixes to the X server build system
>>>> too, which is why I haven't done it yet.  Probably should do though. 
>>>> I just hate to be in a situation where we're shipping CVS bits in
>>>> FC6; I keep hoping Mesa will hurry up and release a 6.5.1 already.
>>> Anything I can do to help? Are you really planning on updating mesa for
>>> FC-6, or would it be worth my time to see if I can isolate a few
>>> important r300 fixes and backport those?
>> Planning a backport, yes.  There are apparently enough Intel and <=R200
>> issues fixed in CVS that it should just be done whole.  Hopefully 6.5.1
>> happens Really Freaking Soon so I don't have to ship CVS bits in FC6.
>>
>> That said, if updated srpms for mesa and xorg-x11-server were to
>> magically appear in Bugzilla for me, I certainly wouldn't object ;)
>>
> 
> Magically appearing SRPM for latest mesa-CVS filed here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201365
> 
> I've been using this with great success on an x86_64 in both 64 and 32
> bit mode (I compiled it in a 32 bit chroot and installed the result on
> my 64 bit Fedora for use with googleearth).
> 
> You also speak about xorg-x11-server changes, I haven't got any for you
> as things work fine for me with the current xorg-x11-server in RawHide.

I was expecting that build system fixes would be required, since 
xorg-x11-server builds against the mesa-source package.  Have you 
attempted to rebuild the X server with a mesa-source from CVS?

- ajax




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