[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.4.99.902

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr> wrote:
> Brian Paul wrote:
>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> On 12:44 Mon 26 May     , Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> what's the mesa version (or tag from git) to use with this version (and
>>>>> upcoming 1.5)? Apparently 7.0.3 is not recent enough, as it doesn't have
>>>>> the defintion of the __DRIcoreExtension and other things that are
>>>>> referenced in glxdri.c.
>>>> You definitely need master. I think Brian is planning on a mesa-7.1.0
>>>> release real soon.
>>> This brings up a good point, though. Tags are cheap. Could whoever makes
>>> a snapshot release just add a tag to mesa to indicate what git revision
>>> builds with it?
>>
>> Similarly, a tag of the DRM tree would be good.
>>
>> I'm prepping a 7.1 release candidate now (and will make a git tag)...
>>
>
> Mesa 7.1rc1 doesn't work with xserver 1.4.99.902:
>
> checking for GL... yes
> Creating destination directories for mesa module ... DONE
> Creating destination directories for glx module ... DONE
> Checking that the source files exist for mesa module ... DONE
> Checking that the source files exist for glx module ...
>    error:   /usr/xenocara/dist/Mesa/src/glx/x11/indirect_dispatch.c not
> found
> configure: error: Failed to link Mesa source tree.  Please specify a
> proper path to Mesa sources, or disable GLX.
> *** Error code 1

Oh. That requires the swrast dri work to be backported to
server-1.5-branch. What's in mesa-7.1.x is post-kill-symlink-mesa.

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Dan