[Openchrome-users] I don't get the big picture with Mesa/XvMC

[Mario Emmenlauer]

Hi,

forget my previous message, after carefully re-reading your
statement I got the message :-) .

Now all I don't understand is: how come the dependency?
Does something in the XvMC-process actually use mesa?

Cheers,
  Mario

Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
> Whow what a fast reply! Thanks!
> 
> John Robinson wrote:
>> So, no, you don't need Mesa, which as you say is for 3D acceleration, 
>> but you do need DRM in your kernel and DRI in your X which are required 
>> for, developed alongside and built with Mesa, which is why the manuals 
>> will tend to tell you about building DRM/DRI as part of building Mesa.
> 
> 
> So if I got you right one doesn't need Mesa for XvMC. That I assumed, and
> now tried to build my stuff without Mesa. However, xorg's xf86-video-via
> driver as well as (your) opencrome-svn complain about missing GL/gl.h:
> 
> In file included from via_driver.h:64,
>                  from via_cursor.c:35:
> /usr/include/GL/glxint.h:28:19: error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
> 
> Did I misunderstand you, or is something borked with my Gentoo?

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