Re: [Dri-devel] Complain and request for Mach64 binaries a la Gatos

[Gareth H. <gar...@ac...>]

Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> Just tried to build mach64 branch. Got an error:
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/sis'
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target
> `../../../../../../lib/GL/dri/drm/sis_drm.h', needed by `sis_alloc.o'. 
> Stop.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/sis'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib/GL'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/db2/xfree/xc/xc/lib'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Any clue? Is it FAQ?

No idea...

> The main point of this letter: could someone please consider the
> possibility of periodical publishing mach64.tar.gz using the method of
> Gatos project: just XFree modules and drm kernel modules (I think, for
> libGL.* will go there too). The building of the whole tree is time- and
> space-consuming task, so these builds could simplify the life for
> "ordinary but adventurous people" like me. Is it wrong idea? I do not
> think it is very difficult to hack little shell script which makes this
> archive...

Why limit this to the mach64 driver?  We don't build binaries for 
anything else, and some might argue that other drivers are used more 
than this one and are thus more worthy of having pre-built binaries :-)

-- Gareth