Bruce Dubbs wrote: > When I run into a problem like yours, finding a header in this case, I > like to paste the long instruction into vi and edit it so I can see > what is going on.
Very helpful, thanks! > In this case, you are missing a header so I looked > at the -I parameters. In my build, I have: > . . . > Yours are identical, except instead of /opt/xorg, you have > /home/afbacher/GCC/OCTAVE/install/. So that part seems to be OK. Now, > I look for nouveau_device.h. I found it in /opt/xorg/include/nouveau/. > > These files are installed as a part of libdrm-2.4.33. It would appear > that you have not installed libdrm properly. Perhaps XORG_PREFIX was > improperly set when you installed it. Thank you Bruce! You gave me enough hints to figure out how to build Mesa. I thought that some readers might benefit from my experience and mistakes, so here goes: A couple of weeks ago, in my naivete and not knowing that BLFS gave good instructions, I tried to compile Mesa on my own. I then discovered that it had a number of build dependencies, which I tried to rectify. This quickly became unmanageable because I found that the dependencies quickly resulted in a large tree that included a lot of stuff from X and so forth. Eventually I stumbled on BeyondLinuxFromScratch and found much helpful material. I installed all the dependencies (a lot of this was X related stuff and I had no idea if it would run on my Redhat5 machine). One of the build dependencies I built weeks ago was libdrm, which I installed in the same place I've been installing Octave related stuff. After hooking up with BLFS I more or less forgot about these earlier builds, until I went through the process of installing all the Xorg stuff. Then I recompiled libdrm and some other programs, and finally was able to compile Mesa. Mesa is definitely working because today I was able successfully to compile octave-3.6.3, which until now have not been able to do. Opengl graphics appears to work, which means that the Mesa installation is ok. Thanks again for your help. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
