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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: sparc@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:53:52
Message-Id: 42FB8F6F.1020907@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans by Ferris McCormick
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4 Ferris McCormick wrote:
5 > 3. With USE=-dri, for testing purposes (and in the end, perhaps for
6 > performance reasons as well), it seems better to change the make target
7 > to HOSTCONF=linux-sparc, and let user's CFLAGS define the architecture.
8 > When you do this, you get both a glx-capable libGL and a stand-alone
9 > libGL
10
11 And why is this a good thing? I'm adamantly against building the non-glx
12 libGL here for standard use, and I will continue to oppose it. Be normal
13 people and do the same thing as everybody else in the world who's ever
14 used libGL in X.
15
16 > 4. For now, in case USE=-dri, I am not calling fix_opengl_symlinks.
17 > Once I have all of X11R7 into test, I'll revisit this (and the Assembly
18 > code question) to see what gives the best performance.
19
20 Same as above.
21
22 > These changes are not very pretty, but they have the benefit of
23 > resulting in an ebuild for a mesa version of opengl which can actually
24 > be tested independently from the rest of Modular X. It is even
25 > conceivable that other architecture/graphics-card combinations might
26 > require something similar.
27
28 I don't see how the standalone libGL has any relation to the ability to
29 test mesa with old or new X.
30
31 Thanks,
32 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>