Re: [PATCH] gnu: mesa: Update to 10.5.4.

[David Thompson]

"Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" <address@hidden> writes:

> Note that this patch introduces some significant changes to the recipe,
> and I'm unsure about their correctness.  (It builds fine, but maybe
> isn't future-proof.)
>
> AFAIUI, python, flex, bison, and gettext are all only needed (at build
> time) when rebuilding parts of the build system.  Maybe they were
> left-overs from before commit ce4d7ab which adds a hack to prevent the
> build system from rebuilding parts of itself; however the same commit
> *adds* gettext which wasn't there before.  Maybe it was an oversight,
> and the commit shouldn't had added gettext and should have removed the
> other three from the native inputs?
>
> In any case, it builds fine when I remove said hack (doesn't seem
> necessary anymore), and also remove all four from native inputs.
>
> (Actually there are also some .py files in the source tree which I'm
> told might be necessary at build time regardless of rebuilding the build
> system, but this doesn't seem to be the case for us, maybe because
> they're only needed for some optional features which we don't have
> enabled.)
>
> Input from any mesa experts or those who touched this package before is
> welcome.
>

This is totally unrelated to your concerns, but since we're on the topic
of making changes to the Mesa recipe: has anyone successfully used Mesa
with a nouveau (nvidia) graphics card?  Our recipe doesn't seem to build
the necessary shared library and I'm not sure how to fix it.

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