Upgrade Mesa to latest Mesa-CVS?

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> 
> nope, I didn't know that the xserver is build against mesa-sources,
> strange I would have thought the 2 would be pretty independent.
> 
> Eitherway I'll be gone for a couple of days now, so I cannot try
> building the X-server. Why don't you give it a shot and let me know the
> result? If it turns out it needs some work, but is fixable and you would
> be willing to update to mesa CVS if the work gets done for you I'm
> probably willing to fix this once I'm back.

Something like the attached (untested) patch might be enough to make the 
xserver build with the cvs mesa rpm.  It's basically just a backport of the 
GLcore Makefile.am changes from the xserver git master branch since 1.1 branched.

Kristian
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