[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.4.98

[stavallo at unina.it]

Quoting Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>:

> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 20:50 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote:
>> Jesse Barnes a écrit :
>> > This is mainly a smoke test for the final 2.5.0 release which I   
>> hope to do on
>> > Monday.  Please give it a try and let me know if you run into   
>> build issues,
>> > etc.
>>
>> configure wants libdrm 2.4.0 which has yet to be released. I've tried
>> tweaking configure.ac to get it to build on non-GEM drm (which was
>> announced to be still supported for 2.5, iirc) but then I get massive
>> failure in src/i830.h about "dri_bo" being undefined.
>>
>> So I gave up and installed mesa and libdrm from git, but then I get DRM
>> errors in dmesg and rendering errors in Firefox 3 and gnome-terminal
>> (both of which use render).
>>
>> And if I start a GEM kernel, X doesn't even start. See my previous post
>> on intel-gfx.
>
> libdrm 2.4.0 is released.
>
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/
>
> I couldn't find any clearer release process for it than "tag it and dump
> a tarball into this directory" -- if any other DRM maintainer-types want
> to suggest an appropriate process, I'd love to hear.
>
> --
> Eric Anholt
> eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
>
>
>

Hi,

btw building the libdrm 2.4.0 tarball (or the git master) still gives  
libdrm.so.2.3.0

Probably, line 25 of libdrm/Makefile.am:

libdrm_la_LDFLAGS = -version-number 2:3:0 -no-undefined

should have been changed to:

libdrm_la_LDFLAGS = -version-number 2:4:0 -no-undefined

Cheers,
Stefano