Packaging 6.5.1 for powerpc

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:27 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to compile sources packages from http://xgl.compiz.info/ for
> powerpc, but mesa fails to build on powerpc.

And you've already asked the people responsible for those packages? ;)

> I try to understand the mess of debian/rules , but i give up. when i run
> dpkg-buildpackages, it obviously compile for i486 or something similar :
> some stuffs in x86-64 directory are build, then it try to build sis
> driver (which obviously fail).

Obviously? Aren't there SiS graphics cards that could work in a PPC
machine?

Anyway, configs/debian-dri-powerpc doesn't contain the sis driver, so I
suspect you should compare the debian/ and configs/ directories between
these packages and what's currently in Debian.


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