[Dri-devel] Re: [Dri-users] Where did the mach64 binaries go?

[F. <jrf...@tu...>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:28:15PM +0100, Felix Kühling wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:33:23 +0000
> José Fonseca <jrf...@tu...> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:54:11PM -0500, Marcus Lauer wrote:
> > > 	Can anyone tell me how I can get the latest mach64 binary snapshot?  Up until 
> > > the end of October there were available at 
> > > http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ .   Now they're gone.  I 
> > > just did a clean install of Mandrake 9.2 on an old laptop, and I've used that 
> > > driver on this laptop with older distros, so I'd like to use it once again.
> > 
> > There have been some problems lately building the mach64 and s3virge drivers, which I
> > still didn't got around to fix them. And the cronjob running at
> > SourceForge eventually erased all older snapshots.
> > 
> > I'm going to see what's causing this (it must be something in the build
> > system, since there haven't been commits to those branches recently).
> > I'm also see if I can prevent older snapshots from being erased when new
> > ones aren't available.
> > 
> > Jose Fonseca
> 
> José, I started setting up a snapshot build on freedesktop. I didn't get
> to building branches yet but I noticed that the scripts on
> dri.sf.net/snapshots/scripts are partly outdated. E.g. extract.sh has
> your fix for static linking with libexpat. But snapshots.cron still
> builds the config-0-0-1-branch and package.sh includes xdriinfo only on
> that branch.

Well, thats how I have them! I never disabled the config branch (see
http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ ;-)  In my mind I
though the branch was still live.

> And there is one more inconsistency. The variable that
> points to the XFree86 source tarball is called XFREE86_SOURCE in
> config.sh but XFREE86_PACKAGE in extract.sh. 

Must have renamed the var in config.sh and forgot to update
extract.sh... but it doesn't matter much here since I have XFree86 4.3.0
installed anyway.

> These are things that are
> easily spotted and fixed. Are there other important differences?

Not differences: it's really bugs! :-) 

I've uploaded new scripts with the necessary changes.

Jose Fonseca