[Mesa-dev] Required Mako version? (WAS: mesa from git fails to compile)

[Eric Engestrom]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 08:11:56PM -0700, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On Monday, July 18, 2016 10:58:25 PM PDT Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Any conclusion or fix for this issue?
> 
> Dylan suggested you use pip --user to install a newer version of Mako.
> Is that a workable solution to your problem?
> 
> I'm having a hard time getting excited about making upstream support
> building against 2011-era software, when doing so makes transitioning
> to Python 3 harder (which is useful for forward-looking distros).

I strongly agree with this.
Sending a patch to raise the required version to 0.8.0 in a couple
minutes.

> Especially when Debian stable and the last two Ubuntu LTS releases
> (2016 and 2014) ship a recent enough version...it's just the LTS
> three back (2012) that doesn't work...
> 
> --Ken