xorg-server-1.4 vs. Mesa-7.0.1 (with GLX)

[Colin Guthrie]

Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:37 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 21:05 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>> Or, will 1.4 build against 7.0.1 and I am just missing something?
>>> xserver 1.4 indeed builds against mesa 7.0.1 (but no older version).
>>> What exactly is the problem when you try that?
>>>
>> And the reverse is true?  To use Mesa-7.0.1, you need xserver 1.4?
>>
>> It is possible that I was trying to use Mesa-7.0.1 with an older version 
>> of xserver although I thought that I was using 1.4.
> 
> You should be able to *use* Mesa 7.0.1 with an older X server, but it
> sounds like you're still referring to building the X server GLX code,
> which indeed tends to have quite a strict dependency on the version of
> the Mesa source tree.

FWIF, in Mandriva we use Xserver 1.3 and Mesa 7.0.1. There are some
patches kicking around so that everything builds fine too.

Col