Packaging 6.5.1 for powerpc

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

Hi,

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:20:23PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

 > 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

 Ok, just to clarify things, the architecture-specific builds are only
 for optimizations.  The system wasn't designed to take architecture
 differences into account.

 That said, it can be done easily, but I have to actually sit down and
 do it :-)

 > 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 can imagine a number of ways to achieve this.  My doubt is rather how
 to get the list of where what builds.  I can brute-force it and wait
 for the bug reports but at a few hours per build that inneficient.

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

 I have actually fixed that.  I have to make a few changes before
 uploading this fix.

 Marcelo