[xorg-server-1.5] build fails against mesa GIT master

[Steven J Newbury]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 21:03 +0100, Steven J Newbury wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 16:41 +0200, Tobias Jakobi wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > On 20:31 Thu 29 May     , Tobias Jakobi wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Hi Donnie,
> > >>
> > >> libxcb for example is requiering a python-2.5 version, these are currently 
> > >> keyworded on gentoo. The current ebuild doesn't check for the python 
> > >> version, so it fails on my system. I'm not very keen on updating python 
> > >> anyway, but if that's the only way to get new X env to build I'm going to 
> > >> try that.
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Looks like it requires Python 2.5:
> > >
> > >   libxcb/configure.ac:AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])
> > >   proto/configure.ac:AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])
> > >
> > > I updated the ebuilds to reflect that.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Donnie
> > >
> > >   
> > Hi Donnie,
> > 
> > after some massive revdep-rebuilds (libxcb-xlib versus libxcb) I managed 
> > to compile xorg-server. It works now, but a few problems remain.
> > 
> > 1) the synaptics driver doesn't build anymore, I was already using a 
> > 9999 version from Hanno Boeck's overlay which worked prior to the MPX 
> > merge and all the XINPUT changes.
> > I already contacted Hanno and asked him about the problem and also the 
> > maintainer of the original synaptics driver.
> > 
> I've attached a working synaptics driver ebuild+files to put in a local
> overlay.
> 
Is there any chance we can get these patches applied to git?

> Also for input hotplug I use the attached hal policy file (put
> in /etc/hal/fdi/policy).
>