On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:56:49PM -0400, Jim Michmerhuizen wrote: > I'm building Mesalib according to the 2012-09-28 BLFS book. > > But the required patchfile isn't up there for downloading. Instead, > there's a patchfile evidently keyed to version 9 rather than 8.0.4. > > I should > a) update my BLFS book, and start over with Mesalib, or > b) continue with v8.0.4, ignoring the required patchfile, or > c) something else. > > What's the right thing to do? > > P.S. The 7.2 LFS is working fine since I finished it about a month ago. > I suppose this is a sie-effect of how the books are generated, with patches copied to some other place. At the moment I can see two versions of the 8.0.4-add_xdemos patch [ you would want the latest ] and also the llvm-3.1-fixes patch, at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/MesaLib/
The "direct" links from the book break when the book gets updated to a newer version, but the patches should remain in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/ If you are using an nvidia video card which is supported by nouveau, the current book is probably better. Arguably, the current book is better for ati too [ I'm using 6.14.6 which is now in the book and needs a newer libdrm than was appropriate for Mesa-8 with nouveau ] and probably for intel (I haven't used newer than 2.20.3 but I see the book is now at 2.20.12) - that too will need a newer libdrm than what was in the book for Mesa-8. For xorg itself, I don't think anything beyond Mesa has changed recently, so on balance I think you should upgrade to the current BLFS book for your remaining packages. If you haven't finished building xorg, you won't have built gtk+-{2,3} let alone any of the gnome packages, so I guess you will be fine to carry on with the newer versions. But for the future, patches should always be available in the patches project. The *right* thing to do is whatever works for you: sometimes we update patches to fix problems, other times we move packages to newer versions - sometimes (e.g. gnome) you need to update a lot of packages to the newer versions rather than just changing one or two, 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
