Does X.org 7.4 work with Mesa 7.2?

[Angel Tsankov]

Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
>>> (xdriinfo fails to configure saying that GL cannot be found)?
>>
>> I have found it necessary to run /sbin/ldconfig after installing
>> Mesa, otherwise GL apps  cannot find the GL shared  libraries. Perhaps 
>> that is your problem?
>>
> It seems that X.org does not use the passed-in path (via -m to
> build-from-tarballs.sh).

...to build Mesa.

> This means that Mesa must be installed
> prior to runnin build-from-tarballs.sh. However it depends on some of
> the X.org packages.  This does not lead to circular dependencies, but
> it probably requires those packages to be built twice -- once to
> satisfy Mesa's requirements and once more by build-from-tarballs.sh. Is 
> this really the case?
>
> I just modified build-from-tarballs.sh to build the dependencies,
> stop so that I can install Mesa and then continue so that it builds
> the rest of X.org.  Now xdriinfo configures fine, but the even the
> first compilation after that fails to find GL/glx.h which is in
> /usr/local/include/glx.h (installed by xcb) and also in <path to
> Mesa>/niclude/GL/glx/h (here <path to Mesa> was passed to
> build-from-tarballs.sh via -m).  I'm going to investigate this later
> on.  Hoever, any help in advance would be appreciated.
>
> --Angel