On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 07:48:40PM -0400, alex lupu wrote: > > But then some ugly thoughts started creeping in and nagging at me: > > Am I now condemned to run MesaLib-8.0.3 in perpetuity?
I snipped the mass-market doom-mongering link - if you came here, you shouldn't be swayed by such things ;-) ISTR that all 8.0 versions of Mesa - well, certainly 8.0.3 - have the same problem. But if you aren't using nouveau, there is nothing to worry about (indeed, newer versions of libdrm are required by the *latest* intel and ati drivers). The BLFS instructions try to be agnostic about what sort of video chip you use, and the book's structure doesn't encourage multiple versions of libraries. Until a version of Mesa > 8.0 is released, the nouveau drivers in Mesa require an old version of libdrm. So, restricting the Mesa drivers is necessary if you use a newer libdrm. On my Sandy Bridge i3 I'm using libdrm-2.4.37 and the 2.20.3 intel driver, and --with-dri-drivers=i915,i965,swrast --with-gallium-drivers=svga,swrast On my r600 I'm using 2.4.37 with the 6.14.6 ati driver, and --with-dri-drivers=radeon,swrast --with-gallium-drivers=r600,svga,swrast Note, in passing, that I put those options into a variable which gets pulled onto the end of the Mesa configure : if I enclose the strings in double quotes, it breaks in my script trying to find the "i915 directory, although it works on the commandline. Mesa is not yet your typical autotooled package. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
