[Mesa-maintainers] Downstream Mesa patches and quirks

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:03:43PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:32:55AM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > > >  - third party (bison, flex, python*) - same as above
> > > I'm going through the bits that require these, but it's picky.
> > > As pointed out - might want to keep these for the time being.
> > > 
> > > On the other hand fdupes and anything that references _mandir could be nuked.
> > 
> > Well, maybe not, because I've added GL/GLU manual pages from old Xserver
> > sources (Mesa was built together with the Xserver sources at this time) to our
> > Mesa package (Mesa sources come without GL/GLU manual pages). That's also the
> > reason why we still need imake in our Mesa package.
> 
> OpenBSD also ships the old manual pages (though with simple Makefiles to
> avoid imake).
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/doc/gl-docs/

Thanks! Stupid question: Is there a way to download these sources?

> Khronos no longer seem interested in providing them:
> 
> https://www.khronos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=865
> 
> "We're not going to build traditional Unix man pages from the sources,
> if that's what you were asking. It's essentially impossible to imbed
> LaTeX math in them without far more effort than is justified and they're
> useless as a web format. It's good that Debian worked something out,
> however."
> 
> https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Refpages
> 
> Even with the debian patch the resulting pages have numerous
> problems with the generated mdoc/roff and don't seem worth
> replacing the old pages with.

Ok. I understand. We'll stay with old ones. Should be still ok for a start. ;-)

CU,
Stefan

> > Mon Jun 19 10:47:49 CEST 2006 - sndirsch at suse.de
> > - added missing manual pages (Bug #185707)
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185707
> > 
> > Maybe not a perfect solution, but still better than not having any GL/GLU
> > manual pages available I believe.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan

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