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I messed up with some backups here and I ended up breaking my system. I reinstalled it yesterday and I think I will give up on upgrading mesa for now. To be honest, with the stock packages the system feels faster (can't actually confirm that but anyways). I am not noticing a sluggish behaviour like I was before. I think I will let it this way.
I messed up with some backups here and I ended up breaking my system. I reinstalled it yesterday and I think I will give up on upgrading mesa for now. To be honest, with the stock packages the system feels faster (can't actually confirm that but anyways). I am not noticing a sluggish behaviour like I was before. I think I will let it this way.
With the slackbuild for mesa I posted I succesfully updated to xorg-1.15. I have a nvidia gpu.
Here is SlackBuild that I had used to build mesa-10.0.3 if it is of any interest..
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 Patrick J. Volkerding, Sebeka, MN, USA
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
# permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#
# 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
# WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
# MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
# SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
# OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
# OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
# ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
PKGNAM=mesa
VERSION=10.0.3
DEMOVERS=8.1.0
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
NUMJOBS=${NUMJOBS:--j3}
# Be sure this list is up-to-date:
DRI_DRIVERS="i915,i965,r200,swrast"
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
case "$( uname -m )" in
i?86) export ARCH=i486 ;;
arm*) export ARCH=arm ;;
*) export ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
esac
fi
CWD=${CWD:-$(pwd)}
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp}
PKG=$TMP/package-mesa
if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -march=native"
LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
else
SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
fi
rm -rf $PKG
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG
cd $TMP
rm -rf Mesa-${VERSION}
tar xvf $CWD/MesaLib-${VERSION}.tar.?z* || exit 1
cd Mesa-$VERSION
# Let's kill the warning about operating on a dangling symlink:
rm -f src/gallium/state_trackers/d3d1x/w32api
# Make sure ownerships and permissions are sane:
chown -R root:root .
find . \
\( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
-exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
\( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
-exec chmod 644 {} \;
# Apply patches from git (and maybe elsewhere):
# Patches obtained by:
# git checkout origin/8.0
# git format-patch 3d657b14b4cab98a2945904823e78cd8950944f4.. # 8.0.3 release
if /bin/ls $CWD/patches/*.patch 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then
for patch in $CWD/patches/*.patch ; do
patch -p1 < $patch || exit 1 ;
done
fi
if [ ! -r configure ]; then
autoreconf || exit 1
fi
# Running autogen to avoid problems if our autotools don't match upstream's:
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--docdir=/usr/doc/mesa-$VERSION \
--with-dri-driverdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/xorg/modules/dri \
--with-dri-drivers="$DRI_DRIVERS" \
--with-gallium-drivers=nouveau,r300,r600,svga \
--enable-gallium-llvm \
--enable-shared-glapi \
--enable-xa \
--enable-osmesa \
--build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
# r300 requires llvm
# Other gallium drivers:
# galahad,i915,identity,llvmpipe,noop,nv50,nvc0,nvfx,rbug,softpipe,svga,trace
make $NUMJOBS || make || exit 1
make install DESTDIR=$PKG || exit 1
# Now install the demos
( cd $TMP
rm -rf mesa-demos-$DEMOVERS
tar xvf $CWD/mesa-demos-$DEMOVERS.tar.?z* || exit 1
cd mesa-demos-$DEMOVERS
chown -R root:root .
find . \
\( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
-exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
\( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
-exec chmod 644 {} \;
CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
# Build and install gears and glinfo, as well as a few other demos
make -C src/demos gears glinfo
make -C src/xdemos \
glthreads glxcontexts glxdemo glxgears glxgears_fbconfig \
glxheads glxinfo glxpbdemo glxpixmap
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
cp -a src/demos/{gears,glinfo} $PKG/usr/bin
for i in glthreads glxcontexts glxdemo glxgears glxgears_fbconfig \
glxheads glxinfo glxpbdemo glxpixmap ; do
cp -a src/xdemos/$i $PKG/usr/bin ;
done
)
# Strip binaries:
find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
| cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
# Compress info files, if any:
if [ -d $PKG/usr/info ]; then
rm -f $PKG/usr/info/dir
gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*
fi
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/Mesa-$VERSION/html
cp -a \
docs/COPYING* docs/relnotes-${VERSION}*.html docs/README* docs/GL* \
$PKG/usr/doc/Mesa-$VERSION
cp -a docs/*.html $PKG/usr/doc/Mesa-$VERSION/html
rm -f $PKG/usr/doc/Mesa-$VERSION/html/relnotes*.html
mkdir -p $PKG/install
cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
cd $PKG
/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $TMP/"${PKGNAM}-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD"_custom.txz
i dont have any news or new ideas for this, but i think it may be time for a push. maybe we solve it before the next release of slackware and take some work of the team? or maybe do it with the team?
I played with this a bit when I had some free time, but simply can't figure out what is going wrong here. I even tried it with a small Gentoo installation to figure out if there is maybe a regression somewhere, but on Gentoo everything compiles and works as intended. Sadly, I have no clue how Gentoo's ebuild files work, so that I can apply its build scripts to the Slackbuilds.
I am totally out of ideas here and, to be honest, currently thinking about switching my main machine to Gentoo (and learning how those ebuilds and Portage work). Portage seems to me to be sbopkg on steroids and I really like its concept.
I am not able to compile a Mesa package in a way that it does not end up in /usr/local, which in turn seems to cause other packages to fail to compile. I just can't figure out what is wrong.
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