On 10/27/06, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
On 26 Oct 06 Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 10/26/06, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snipit]
>>I want to ask if tikering with 'Mesa' at this stage will have any
>>influence
>>on those applications?
>It'll be OK. You are updating shared libraries that should be
>backwards compatible. The important Of course, if things break after
>you update Mesa, you should reinstall the old version. You might want
>to back things up before you do this, just to be safe. Here's the list
>of files for mesa on my system:
But should I also re-install the 'xserver' because, as the book cautions,
'xserver' also uses some files from 'Mesalib' sources? If so, any
adverse effects of doing that?
You could, but you don't have to. The xserver uses source from Mesa to
build the glx and GLcore extensions. So, you just won't have the
latest glx bits running in your xserver. In fact, I wouldn't do it
unless you want to track down some patches since xorg-server-1.1.1
"expects" Mesa-6.5 (there's some source synchronizing magic that gets
broken whenever Mesa changes anything).
But you should still be OK. Alternatively, you could rip out the patch
for Sis from Mesa-6.5.1 and just rebuild Mesa-6.5. Then everything
else would be the same.
--
Dan
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