[PATCH v2] Building: update the Raspberry Pi weston section

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:18:27 +0300
Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:16:38 +0200
> Silvan Jegen <s.jegen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Update the Weston autogen.sh flags and make the accompanying text less
> > confusing.
> > ---
> >  raspberrypi.html | 21 +++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/raspberrypi.html b/raspberrypi.html
> > index 44d9ce4..153b8a2 100644
> > --- a/raspberrypi.html
> > +++ b/raspberrypi.html
> > @@ -146,24 +146,25 @@ contains similar files for Android, and will not work.</p>
> >  <pre>    $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston
> >      $ cd weston
> >  
> > -    $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$WLD \
> > -    --disable-setuid-install --with-cairo-glesv2 \
> > +    $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$WLD --disable-setuid-install \
> >      --disable-x11-compositor --disable-drm-compositor \
> >      --disable-fbdev-compositor --disable-wayland-compositor \
> > -    --disable-weston-launch --disable-simple-egl-clients \
> > -    --disable-egl --disable-libunwind --disable-colord \
> > -    --disable-resize-optimization --disable-xwayland-test \
> > +    --disable-weston-launch --disable-simple-egl-clients --disable-egl \
> > +    --disable-libunwind --disable-colord --disable-resize-optimization \
> > +    --disable-xwayland-test \
> >      WESTON_NATIVE_BACKEND="rpi-backend.so"
> >  
> >      $ make
> >      $ make install
> >  </pre>
> >  
> > -<p>When adding <tt>--disable-wayland-compositor</tt> you can remove the
> > -dummy <tt>wayland-egl.pc</tt> pkg-config file, if you installed it before.
> > -This makes sure, that toytoolkit (Weston demo programs) does not use Cairo
> > -EGL. EGL does not work for clients due to EGL Wayland platform being
> > -unimplemented on Raspberry Pi.</p>
> > +<p>If you decide to use the <tt>--disable-wayland-compositor</tt>
> > +flag supplied above you can remove the dummy <tt>wayland-egl.pc</tt>
> > +pkg-config file which you may have installed from following an older
> > +version of this guide. Removing this file makes sure, that toytoolkit
> > +(Weston demo programs) does not use Cairo EGL. EGL does not work for
> > +clients due to the EGL Wayland platform being unimplemented on the
> > +Raspberry Pi.</p>
> >  
> >  <p>Weston should work by running <tt>weston</tt>. Remember to have the
> >  environment set up, and it is useful to have an ssh session open to your
> 
> Looks good to me!

Kristian,

I think it would make sense to merge this patch, the new work we've
been doing will probably take a bit of time before even submitting
for review.

Is Darxus no longer maintaining the website, since he seems to have
disappeared from my radar completely?


Thanks,
pq