Hello. I want to update mesa to take advantage of some features in wine-staging. I download the newest version of mesa and run ./configure. The process ends at this:

I have these two packages installed currently:

So then I downloaded libdrm-2.4.65, run ./configure, make, make install as the README instructs. Lots of warning but no errors. Yet I still can't configure mesa -- I get the same error as above. I tried installing libdrm to a different prefix and pointing mesa there. That didn't work either.

Any assistance would be appreciated. I am on Slackware64 14.1 multilib.

This can help you

http://linorg.usp.br/slackware/slack...esa.SlackBuild

Not to mess your system, I suggest you build upgraded Slackware packages using the build material in /source in the Slackware mirrors or media.

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That slack build doesn't help. Mesa wants a newer version of libdrm.

Didier Spaier: Would it hurt anything if I install the libdrm and mesa packages from the slackware-current mirrors?

Also reuse the SlackBuilds for libdrm to rebuild a new package for libdrm then.

About using the libdrm and mesa packages for slackware-current; I didn't check, could be a hit or miss.

But what you could do is reuse the build material for -current to rebuild both packages, in case something did change in the SlackBuilds or maybe new patches applied: again, I didn't check.

All that been said, I'd suggest that you wait to fiddle with such important components of your system that you be more familiar with Slackware and its packaging system. http://docs.slackware.com can help you get there, especially all articles about Slackware packages that you can find using the search feature.

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First try this:

http://linorg.usp.br/slackware/slack...urce/x/libdrm/

Then try this:
http://linorg.usp.br/slackware/slack...source/x/mesa/

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If you use Wine with Mesa-nine, make sure you enable the Gallium drivers for Nouveau, Radeon, RadeonSi, i915, and ilo.

If you're attempting to do this on Slackware 14.1, you're in for a lot of recompiling. I did this last December to upgrade my mesa to 10.4, and it is a lot of work and a lot of dependencies. Keep in mind, this was for mesa back in December, so dependencies may have changed even further. The following is what I changed. The (recompiled) programs were needed so they worked with the other upgraded dependencies.

autoconf 2.69 (recompiled)
automake 1.11.5 -> 1.14.1
libdrm 2.4.46 -> 2.4.58
libelf 0.8.13 (recompiled)
libevdev 1.2 (added)
llvm 3.3 -> 3.4.2
mesa 9.1.7 -> 10.4
qt 4.8.5 -> 4.8.6
xorg 1.14.3 -> 1.15.2 (this was just the server version, but I didn't want to list each xorg package individually, since it was 276 packages)

Overall, it probably took me a week to get the everything upgraded properly. It contained some frustrating moments when I'd have a build fail due to outdated dependencies or when I'd attempt a reboot and something would crap out. Then I'd have to revert back to the stock packages and try again. Once everything was done, I then needed to do it all again in a 32bit VM so I could upgrade my multilib (but it's much easier to do it the second time than the first). It's definitely doable, but a better option might be to just switch to -current, since it has mesa 11.0.2 (and it'd likely be a really simple compile to upgrade to 11.0.3 if desired). But if you want to continue pursuing this, I would recommend starting with the source and slackbuilds from -current, and then only upgrade further when necessary. It's a lot easier than trying to just blindly update programs not using the work Pat has already done to get everything working together.

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Thanks guys. I think Didier Spaier is correct that I should hold off until I have a better understanding of this. And I will most likely try out Slackware-Current rather than try doing it all myself.