Mesa 6.5 Development Release

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 20:20 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:25:42PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
>  > BTW, the fact that this doesn't get triggered by
>  > libgl1-mesa-{glx,dri} alerted me that those don't seem to get built
>  > optimally; e.g., the ASM_* variables don't seem to get set. Marcelo,
>  > was there any particular reason you created Debian specific build
>  > configs instead of using the stock ones?
> 
>  Is "because the stock ones don't work for Debian" good enough?
> 
>  Option one is patch the upstream configs.  The pro for this is that I
>  don't have to track changes to upstream and copy them over to the
>  Debian configs.  The con is that I would have to patch the upstream
>  configs so much that the pro would get diluted.
> 
>  Option two is do what I did.
> 
>  Interestingly enough, upstream has exactly the same problem I describe
>  in option one.  If you diff the different variants of the same
>  configuration (e.g. plain vs i386-optimized) you'll notice they have
>  drifted away.
> 
>  Furthermore, upstream's configuration don't map well to Debian.  I'm
>  going from memory here.  That said, for example what upstream calls
>  SPARC is not the same thing that Debian calls SPARC.

Thanks for the explanation. FWIW, I'll happily push any patches to make
the upstream configs more useful for Debian. I know the handling of
powerpc could be much improved upstream.


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