On Wednesday, 2017-11-15 17:39:26 +0100, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: > Hey Matias, > Matias N. Goldberg wrote on 15.11.2017 16:51: > >> Why, doesn't your distro have LLVM development packages? > > They aren't as up to date. Keeping up-to-date with everything mesa needs is > > exhausting. > > I started compiling LLVM from source when I needed to test an LLVM patch to > > fix a GLSL shader compiler bug. > > > > I also compile mesa from source (rather thank using Oibaf or Padoka's PPA > > for Ubuntu) because as a graphics dev, being able to debug inside Mesa has > > proven to be an invaluable tool. > > you seem to be using Ubuntu or another Debian derivate. In that case you can > get > development snapshot packages from Debian's LLVM maintainer at > <https://apt.llvm.org/>. > > Cheers, > Kai > > P.S.@Michel: Maybe it would be helpful to add that URL to the Mesa > documentation > somewhere?
The "requirements" section of docs/llvmpipe.html looks like a good place for it; care to send a patch? :) _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
