On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone run this on CentOS 5.3? Secret Maryo Chronicles doesn't > work either because the blankety blank Mesa is too old. Sheesh ;-) > > I download Mesa-7.4.1 source and try to compile it, no go > because it can't find libdrm. > > Okay, I go grab libdrm-2.4.7 source code which won't compile because > pkg-config can't find some pthreads thingy: > > checking for PTHREADSTUBS... configure: error: Package requirements > (pthread-stubs) were not met: > > No package 'pthread-stubs' found > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you > installed software in a non-standard prefix. > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PTHREADSTUBS_CFLAGS > and PTHREADSTUBS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > > Well how do I take care of this pthreads problem and will there be > more breakage? Why doesn't the CentOS team address the fact that > Mesa is ancient and most programs won't work?
Because they are just rebuilding and repackaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Enterprises are not interested in things like game support on their servers. I run CentOS 5.3 on my work desktop. I use it because it is the closest to RHEL5 that I can get without spending (or causing the company) to spend money. I do have paid support for two copies of RHEL5 as this is for our version control repositories. Had to go with RHEL as the company already was using Clearcase and IBM only supports Clearcase on RHEL or SUSE. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
