Re: [Dri-users] rh7 compile of DRI ? (fwd)

[zhou <zh...@st...>]

"Homme R. Bitter" wrote:

> Hi all,

Dear Homme:

You put most useful information of DRI in this user group.
Thanks for your efforts and your time! I really appreciate your assistance!

>
>
> Here is the promised mini-howto for compiling DRI on RH 7.
>
> Follow the instructions on building DRI as pointend out on the DRI compile
> howto: http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIcompile.html
>
> Take special care of your compile on RH 7 regarding the following issues:
>
>         - make sure your compiler knows the path to the kernel header
>           files that come with the 2.4 kernel source tree.
>           If not, your DRI compile wil quit somewhere with a message like
>           error 1: linux/blah.h not found
>
>         - Make sure you compile your kernel with kgcc
>           after make (menu)config, you usually run something like
>           make clean; make dep; make modules && make bzImage
>           you should change to
>           make modules CC="/usr/bin/kgcc"; \
>           make bzImage CC="/usr/bin/kgcc"
>           This will make sure kgcc is used for kernel compilation
>           because the default C compiler RedHat uses has issues with
>           building kernels.
>

Could you please also provide your .config file for your kernel rebuilding as
our reference?
What features you enabled and disabled? The guide says:
enable agpgart, disable the DRI in the kernel, any others? mtrr,
multiprocessing, etc?
enable agpgart as a module or embed in the kernel, any difference?

>
>         - Make sure your DRI also compiles with kgcc, you can accomplish
>           this by setting a few enviroment variables before you run
>           make World
>           eg.:
>           when using bash
>           export CC="/usr/bin/kgcc"; \
>           export cc="/usr/bin/kgcc"; \
>           make World > /tmp/dribuild.log 2>&1
>
>           when using (t)csh
>           setenv CC "/usr/bin/kgcc"; \
>           setenv cc "/usr/bin/kgcc"; \
>           make World >& /tmp/dribuild.log
>

Could you please also put your "host.conf" as our reference?
What features you enabled and disabled?

Thanks Homme.


Zhou

>
> These are the basic steps you should take to compile DRI on a stock RH7
> system, it worked for me, I can't tell anything about stability because I
> only got things done about 2 hours ago...
>
> Regards,
>
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