Announcing the X11R7.5 supermodule

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Fri Sep 11 21:28:12 PDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:10:00PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> Subject: Announcing the X11R7.5 supermodule
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:02:07 +1000
> 
> > As previously mentioned, I created a git supermodule for X11R7.5. It is now
> > in a usable state.
> > 
> >         http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/X11R7.5/
> > 
> > The supermodule starting point was X11R7.4. It includes modules listed in
> > build.sh, with dependencies outside the xorg/ tree in a directory called
> > extras (xcb, mesa, pixman).
> > 
> > Some modules removed since 7.4 have been removed from the supermodule, other
> > modules have been updated to their latest released version.
> > 
> > With the release of the server snapshot last week the module is now
> > up-to-date and everything builds against each other (tested on F-11
> > tinderbox without any system X and GL headers installed).
> > Please find the shortlog below, though note that it contains all versions
> > when added to the module. Thus some modules may be listed multiple times if
> > they got updated a few times within the last few weeks.
> > 
> > I'll keep updating with releases as they come until we hit X11R7.5.  If you
> > notice a module that is not at the required version please notify me.
> > 
> > To use this supermodule to get a full build do the following:
> >     git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/X11R7.5.git
> >     cd X11R7.5
> >     git submodule init
> >     git submodule update
> 
> I get this:
> 
>   $ git submodule update
>   fatal: Needed a single revision
>   Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'extras/mesa/mesa'
> 
> `git pull' works within the `mesa' subdirectory, BTW.

i have no idea what could be wrong there. Just tried it again here and it
works fine.
did you run git submodule init? do you have auto-rebasing for submodule set
in your gitconfig (if that can be set?)

Cheers,
  Peter


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