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Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686.


From: Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:25:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Please, let's not do that.  We should be moving in the other direction,
>> by using less, not more, of the unbelievably massive amount of bundled
>> stuff in Qt.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> If this "fix" is the really best we can hope for from upstream, then
>> let's do it this way instead: after unpacking Qt 5, make a copy of
>> glext.h from *our* system Mesa, apply the above patch to that copy, and
>> arrange for that patched copy to be found first in the include search
>> path during the Qt build.  Then at least we will have only one copy of
>> Mesa in memory and only one copy of the Mesa source code to maintain
>> (for security fixes, fixes for non-Intel platforms, fixes for Guix,
>> etc).
>
> Sounds like a good plan.
>
>> Thanks again, Taylan, for working on this unpleasant task.
>
> Indeed, this is neither easy nor funny, but work in this area is
> definitely appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Seems I left this thread dangling; I sent a new patch in a new thread on
the meanwhile.  And it even seems to work this time. :-)

Taylan



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