[Nouveau] Current state - how to get gallium-stuff running?

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 14:40 +1100, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 09.03.2008, 01:25 +0000 schrieb seventh guardian:
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Pekka Paalanen <pq at iki.fi> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:04:30 +0100
> > >  "Hanno Böck" <hanno at hboeck.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >  > Using Gentoo, using the nouveau-overlay. Installing git-packages of libdrm,
> > >  > x11-drm, xf86-video-nouveau. Changed mesa-package to fetch nouveau/mesa git
> > >  > with gallium-0.1 branch. installed that.
> > 
> > Didn't know that "official" gallium development moved from darktama's
> > git (which is good I guess) ;)
> > Probably been away for too long...
> > 
> > >  Here might be the reason, maybe the ebuild is still building the wrong
> > >  branch. Git ebuild coding has a nasty feature, but you are safe if you set
> > >  *both* TREE and BRANCH. And I don't remember if it requires other changes,
> > >  too.
> > >
> > >  Anyway, I'd recommend building mesa by hand, so you are sure which branch
> > >  you build and how.
> > 
> > Not sure if this matters, but I've noticed that the nouveau_dri.so
> > library isn't built when doing "make linux-dri-x86-64
> > DRI_DIRS=nouveau_winsys". I had to manually build it.
> Use DRI_DIRS="nouveau" and "make linux-dri", even on amd64.  I'm not
> sure the TG guys have updates linux-dri-x86-64 for the build system
> changes.

I've been using the linux-dri-x86-64 target, and it seems to be
working (OpenArena, glxgears), most of the time at least!  It certainly
builds.