For those of you who haven't been following along or who don't care (and the "don't care" group should stop reading now), xorg-x11 is currently being transformed upstream from one package into many. Spyderous is in turn converting xorg-x11....ebuild into almost 300 packages. These packages are all masked right now, but (I think) they are all keyworded ~sparc (except for some drivers that sparc cannot make any use of).
I have started testing the process and the new modular X itself. I am working in a complete cloned chroot enviromnent on SB1000(2x900), with the exception that /usr/portage/[distfiles,packages] directories are common to the two environments. The chroot clone was initialized with 'emerge -C xorg-x11'. The purpose of this note is to provide a bit of status and to generate a thread for sparc-specific comment. Since spyderous's new ebuilds are quite robust (I assume he has given up on incidentals like sleep for the moment), the problems so far seem to originate at freedesktop itself, and are related to the fact that freedesktop people are not really equiped to test xorg on sparc/linux systems. Thus, bug reports are not on bugs.gentoo.org; rather, they are at https://bugs.freedesktop.org Current show stoppers are bugs 4128 (fixed upstream) and, more seriously, 4133. Both prevent successful building of xorg-server. Any sparc person who has an account at bugs.freedesktop and would like copied on such bugs, please let me know how you are known at b.f.o, and I'll try to CC you on them. Notes: 1. If you wish to join the fun, please start with Donnie's howto documents at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/ There is a reasonably current (i.e., somewhat outdated) list of Modular X modules relevant to sparc at http://dev.gentoo.org/~fmccor/files/X-modular (some packages have moved, and such like.) 2. Although there are lots of packages to build, most of them build in parallel (using your MAKEOPTS value), so the build is not as bad as it might be. (Exception is mesa. For me, it builds fine in parallel, but on other architectures it has problems. Experiment at your own risk and provide feedback if you like.) Updates provided as they happen and when I remember to provide them. -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)
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