Bug#364228: fixed in mesa 6.4.2-1

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:53 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:48:42AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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>  > >    * debian/control: b-d on x11proto-gl-dev.  Please don't hate me!
>  > 
>  > I'm afraid I don't get this one.
> 
>  I might be wrong, but doesn't that create a circular dependency?

None that I can see. x11proto-* generally only provide header files and
don't have any real dependencies, so they tend to help break circular
dependencies. :)


>  > >          + Built only for i386: ffb.
>  > >            Rationale: Michel Dänzer said so, no idea why.
>  > 
>  > I beg your pardon? I said no such thing. AFAIK FFB hardware is only
>  > available in Sun SPARC machines. The reason why it's built upstream
>  > by default is to catch trivial build failures.
> 
>  Well, I can go hunting for the mail if you wish (I'd rather not), but I
>  remember making the change prompted by a mail of yours.  I obviously
>  misunderstood.
> 
>  So, it's SPARC-only then?

Yes.


>  > >    * configs/debian*_i386: disabled, optimized build fuxxored.
>  > 
>  > I'd really appreciate details instead of yet more witty remarks.
> 
>  Ah, yes, sorry... I still owe you that mail.

You don't owe me anything, I just don't find it very useful to have
ramblings all over the place but no details. Thanks for providing some
now.


>  If I start any OpenGL client with the optimized libraries I get a
>  missing symbol (gl_dispatch_functions_start).
> 
>  The symbol is defined (says me) in mesa-6.4.2/src/mesa/x86/glapi_x86.S
>  and there's a line:
> 
>     HIDDEN(GLNAME(gl_dispatch_functions_start))
> 
>  I tried removing this line and the problem persists.  Since I found no
>  reports of such a problem I assumed it has something to do with the one
>  thing that different in sid at the moment: GCC 4.1.

Actually, sid is still at 4.0. But I agree that this is the first
suspect. Might be worth trying an older compiler and bringing it up
upstream.


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