[Mesa-users] Building Alternate Mesa

[Dan Allen]

Hi,

I would like to build/install a different version of Mesa on my system 
to trial it (i.e. without completely installing it in place of the 
currently installed version).  Is this possible?

I am currently running Ubuntu 16.10 x64.

I found this information 
https://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/build-mesa.html and followed 
most of it (I downloaded the version I wanted (12.0.6) rather than git 
clone).  It compiled fine etc.  However, when I execute glxinfo in 
terminal, the output is not as expected.  For example, the max core 
profile version is stated as "0.0" and the OpenGL version string is "2.1 
Mesa 12.0.6".  For my hardware, I would expect this to be "3.3" and "3.0 
Mesa 12.0.6" respectively.

Could anyone point me in the right direction to get this working?

Thanks.