"Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" <taylanbayi...@gmail.com> writes:
> Note that this patch introduces some significant changes to the recipe, > and I'm unsure about their correctness. (It builds fine, but maybe > isn't future-proof.) > > AFAIUI, python, flex, bison, and gettext are all only needed (at build > time) when rebuilding parts of the build system. Maybe they were > left-overs from before commit ce4d7ab which adds a hack to prevent the > build system from rebuilding parts of itself; however the same commit > *adds* gettext which wasn't there before. Maybe it was an oversight, > and the commit shouldn't had added gettext and should have removed the > other three from the native inputs? > > In any case, it builds fine when I remove said hack (doesn't seem > necessary anymore), and also remove all four from native inputs. > > (Actually there are also some .py files in the source tree which I'm > told might be necessary at build time regardless of rebuilding the build > system, but this doesn't seem to be the case for us, maybe because > they're only needed for some optional features which we don't have > enabled.) > > Input from any mesa experts or those who touched this package before is > welcome. > This is totally unrelated to your concerns, but since we're on the topic of making changes to the Mesa recipe: has anyone successfully used Mesa with a nouveau (nvidia) graphics card? Our recipe doesn't seem to build the necessary shared library and I'm not sure how to fix it. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
