[Mesa-maintainers] Downstream Mesa patches and quirks

[Emil Velikov]

On 26 February 2018 at 14:56, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:06:58PM +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 03:29:36PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > On 20 February 2018 at 15:20, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 02:58:26PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > >> Last but not least - some .spec nits:
>> > >>  - imake - gone for about a decade now.
>> > >>  - libudev - not required since Mesa 13.0.0
>> > >>  - openssl - not required since Mesa 17.0.0
>> > >>  - autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool) - not needed when using
>> > >> release tarballs
>> > >>  - third party (bison, flex, python*) - same as above
>> > >
>> > > python is required when building r600 from taballs with
>> > > 17.2/17.3/18.0 as src/gallium/drivers/r600/egd_tables.h is missing.
>> > >
>> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103911
>> > >
>> > Thanks - missed that one. Patch done -  will do a full(~ish) run and
>> > send it out.
>>
>> What does that mean? python is not needed at all for building when using
>> release tarballs? That would be completely news to me.
>
> Haven't seen this patch yet in git. Any pointer available? Is it planned to
> release this fix with Mesa 18.0.0 final, so with this release tarball python
> is no longer need? I would really like to get rid of the python buildrequires.
>
Haven't send out those patches - got stuck fixing the gl.pc (the
Fedora/Arch patch that you carry) and ton of related bits.
Ideally it'll be in 18.0.0 final, but if not - keep an eye open on the
bugfix release notes.

-Emil