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For those of you who haven't been following along or who don't care (and |
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the "don't care" group should stop reading now), xorg-x11 is currently |
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being transformed upstream from one package into many. Spyderous is in |
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turn converting xorg-x11....ebuild into almost 300 packages. These |
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packages are all masked right now, but (I think) they are all keyworded |
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~sparc (except for some drivers that sparc cannot make any use of). |
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I have started testing the process and the new modular X itself. I am |
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working in a complete cloned chroot enviromnent on SB1000(2x900), with |
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the exception that /usr/portage/[distfiles,packages] directories are |
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common to the two environments. The chroot clone was initialized with |
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'emerge -C xorg-x11'. |
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The purpose of this note is to provide a bit of status and to generate a |
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thread for sparc-specific comment. Since spyderous's new ebuilds are |
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quite robust (I assume he has given up on incidentals like sleep for the |
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moment), the problems so far seem to originate at freedesktop itself, |
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and are related to the fact that freedesktop people are not really |
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equiped to test xorg on sparc/linux systems. Thus, bug reports are not |
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on bugs.gentoo.org; rather, they are at https://bugs.freedesktop.org |
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Current show stoppers are bugs 4128 (fixed upstream) and, more |
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seriously, 4133. Both prevent successful building of xorg-server. |
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Any sparc person who has an account at bugs.freedesktop and would like |
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copied on such bugs, please let me know how you are known at b.f.o, and |
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I'll try to CC you on them. |
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Notes: |
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1. If you wish to join the fun, please start with Donnie's howto |
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documents at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/ There is a |
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reasonably current (i.e., somewhat outdated) list of Modular X modules |
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relevant to sparc at http://dev.gentoo.org/~fmccor/files/X-modular (some |
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packages have moved, and such like.) |
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2. Although there are lots of packages to build, most of them build |
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in parallel (using your MAKEOPTS value), so the build is not as bad as |
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it might be. (Exception is mesa. For me, it builds fine in parallel, |
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but on other architectures it has problems. Experiment at your own risk |
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and provide feedback if you like.) |
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Updates provided as they happen and when I remember to provide them. |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) |
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