Package: libgl1-mesa-dri Version: 7.7~rc2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch
First, I would like to thank the Debian X Strike Force for this release of Mesa, which includes r600 support. Over the past 6 weeks I have been experimenting with building my own DEBs of Mesa from upstream, because until recently the version of Mesa in Debian unstable was not including r600 support. (I have a Radeon RV770 GPU, so I've been playing around with getting accelerated 2D/3D working in X.) Now, please forgive my reporting of this bug against 'libgl1-mesa-dri': I really wanted to file against the 'mesa' source package itself. (I couldn't find any information about filing bugs against source packages, except for a couple of items in the BTS -- #560230 and #540430 -- which seem unresolved.) The first time I built custom DEBs of Mesa 7.7-rc1 (a few weeks ago), I had version 2.4.14 of 'libdrm2' installed. I am new to building DEBs, and had stolen the 'debian' directory from the Debianized sources of mesa-7.6-1 to give myself a head start. The build failed in the configure script because Mesa 7.7 had increased its libdrm dependency to 2.4.15. I built my own DEBs of libdrm 2.4.15 (also stealing the 'debian' directory from 2.4.14) first, then made the following change to 'debian/control' in the Mesa sources: diff -r a/debian/control b/debian/control 8c8 < libdrm-dev (>= 2.4.3) [!hurd-i386], libx11-dev, xutils-dev, --- > libdrm-dev (>= 2.4.15) [!hurd-i386], libx11-dev, xutils-dev, The build succeeded with the new version of libdrm, so this change seems appropriate. I also faced a problem with whitespace that caused the build to jump to my home directory looking for the next Makefile, luckily causing the build to fail. (Note to self: never keep a Makefile in the home directory!) There was a change in the Mesa sources from 7.6 to 7.7-devel that subtly caused your '03_optional-progs-and-install.patch' to stop working for me, though I see you haven't changed it... which probably means you are not seeing the same problem I did. Well, FYI, the following diff shows my changes to your patch versus your original version: diff -r mesa-7.7-rc2-dw/debian/patches/03_optional-progs-and-install.patch mesa-7.7~rc2-debian/debian/patches/03_optional-progs-and-install.patch 48,54c48,52 < + @if test -n "$(SUBDIRS)" ; then \ < + for dir in $(SUBDIRS) ; do \ < + if [ -d $$dir ] ; then \ < + (cd $$dir ; $(MAKE) install) ; \ < + fi \ < + done \ < + fi --- > + @for dir in $(SUBDIRS) ; do \ > + if [ -d $$dir ] ; then \ > + (cd $$dir ; $(MAKE) install) ; \ > + fi \ > + done This solves the issue I was having on my system, and makes the code in the "install" target of 'progs/Makefile' more similar to the surrounding code. Since your 7.7-rc2 incorporates more recent changes than the 7.7-rc2 I had built, I have now switched to the Debian XSF version. Thanks! One last issue to mention -- probably nothing to worry about, since I am a noob to Mesa and to building DEBs. I noticed that after the "install" target of 'debian/rules' is run, there are two copies of a file called 'gl.pc': one is in 'debian/tmp/usr/lib/glx/pkgconfig' and the other is in 'debian/tmp/usr/lib/pkgconfig'. Only one ends up being packaged -- the one build by the software rasterization config -- while the version created by the "dri" config is left unused. Now I don't truly understand what gl.pc is for but, as far as I have been able to gather, it is is used by 'pkg-config' to determine dependency information about libraries installed on the build system. Won't 'pkg-config' get confused if I want to build software against a DRI version of libGL.so, but the installed gl.pc contains dependency information about a (completely different) software rasterizing version of libGL.so? I have to plead ignorance here, and I am literally just seeking to satisfy my curiosity about this. The man page for 'pkg-config' indicates that more than one *.pc file can be used in a system for very similar libraries, so I was just wondering if it would be better to use both copies of gl.pc somehow. Thanks again to the XSF for your efforts! Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-0git091206.desktop.vesa (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libgl1-mesa-dri depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdrm-intel1 2.4.15-0upstream091008 Userspace interface to intel-speci ii libdrm2 2.4.15-0upstream091008 Userspace interface to kernel DRM ii libexpat1 2.0.1-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li libgl1-mesa-dri recommends no packages. Versions of packages libgl1-mesa-dri suggests: pn libglide3 <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
