[Dri-devel] Possible problems with post-merge snapshots

[Charl P. B. <c.p...@it...>]

Dear list (and especially Jos=E9),

This is a heads-up regarding post-merge DRI driver snapshots.  I tried
building binary snapshots of my resume things yesterday in a post-merge
tree which is why I ran into these issues.

1. It seems the XFree86 module ABI version has been bumped upwards.=20
This means that snapshots as they are currently made will NOT work when
installed over an existing XFree86 4.2 installation as the XFree86 will
complain of an ABI version mismatch when trying to install the new
modules.

If one were to ship the XFree86 binary (I briefly experimented with
this) it complains about the OLD 4.2 modules it has to load and also
terminates.

The snapshots are incredibly handy, so it would be nice to work around
this.  I was planning to try and bundle all loadable modules as well as
the XFree86 binary, but haven't had the time yet.

2. Due to changes in the build configuration, just applying
http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/scripts/dri-xfree86.sed and
building won't work, as the build system tries to build bunches of
libraries that are not part of the DRI CVS tree.  I hacked around this
as I bundle libGLU with my driver packages as well.

HTH,
Charl

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