Packaging 6.5.1 for powerpc

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 13:08 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> 
>  Since you are trying to build this for Xgl, you probably want the DRI
>  drivers and only that.  Look in debian/README.build and you'll find an
>  explaination about what to edit and what to remove to prevent certain
>  targets from building.

But the build error occurs in the sis DRI driver... AFAICT the real
problem is that the build doesn't use the powerpc specific
configuration, so it tries to build all the DRI drivers regardless of
whether they make sense on powerpc. Even
libgl1-mesa-dri_6.4.1-0.4_powerpc.deb in the archive contains

/usr/lib/dri/ffb_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/i830_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/mach64_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/mga_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/r128_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/s3v_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/savage_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/sis_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/tdfx_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/trident_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so

of which at least ffb and i* won't ever be used on powerpc. I'm not sure
that there aren't any discrete SiS cards that could be used in PPC
machines though.

I've spent considerable time looking at the build scripts but have yet
to get a good understanding of them. :}


PS: As I previously pointed out, there seems to be a similar issue
preventing the i386 libgl1-mesa-dri from building with x86
optimizations.

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