A working set of libdrm, mesa and xorg-server?

[Michael Verret]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 07:48 -0500, Michael Verret wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been working away at getting the latest or a very recent
>> combination of a working set of libdrm, mesa and xorg-server from GIT
>> to compile but I keep running into a roadblock. I either get stopped
>> at mesa, mesa/progs/demos (I would like to have at the least
>> mesa/progs/demos/gears) or xserver when one of them halts compiling at
>> a fatal error. To rule out that it is an error on my part that I have
>> not correctly prepared my system with a good set of supporting libs &
>> apps can someone please list a set of libdrm, mesa and xorg-server GIT
>> commits known to play nicely? A set of tarballs would be even sweeter
>> working for me in regards to a near xorg-7.4.
>
> We're using Mesa and libdrm from git in Fedora atm, but I also test the
> builds with libdrm 2.3.1 release and the Mesa 7.1 release candidate.
>
> If you don't mind reading rpm specfiles:

I do not mind, they are easy on the eyes.

> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/libdrm/F-9/libdrm.spec?view=auto
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/mesa/F-9/mesa.spec?view=auto
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/xorg-x11-server/F-9/xorg-x11-server.spec?view=auto
>
> The mesa build is easily the least pleasant of the lot, though it's
> significantly prettier now that the configure script more or less does
> what I want.  Note that there _is_ a bootstrapping problem: you need a
> libglut around to link most of the demos.  You can get one by doing a
> Mesa libs build before building the demos, but the one included in Mesa
> is widely considered non-free.
>
> - ajax
>
>

Again, many thanks!

Michael