[Mageia-dev] Update of mesa to git version

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 22 June 2011 19:54, Philippe DIDIER <philippedidier at laposte.net> wrote:
>>  I also disable the mesa glut build in the same change since (if i'm not
>> wrong)
>>  we're supposed to move to freeglut instead.
>
>
> Thierry Vignaud is certainly the one that is aware about freeglut versus
> GLUT ! He is the one that may say if you are right or wrong to do so now !

Other distros (eg: fedora) have done the switch long time ago.
Both projects are more or less dead (which is somewhat expected for projects
implementing an API dead for a decade)

FC has patches for the examples & for killing warnings though.

We would need to test GLUT a little bit

As for gallium, I'm regularly testing r300 from git but I'ven't tested
neither r600 nor nouveau (though my experience with nouveau on FC
is that it regress quite a lot and is heavily dependant on the
kernel/libdrm/mesa triplet).

r300g is alreay the default in incoming mesa-7.11 (I think
this was already the case on 7.10).
r600g will be the default in 7.12
No bugs are accepted on r300c anymore (don't remember for r600c)
As for nouveau, well we've no alternatives.
As for swrast, the LLVM gallium driver is said to be faster but
I'ven't tested it.

> Beware of the fact that freeglut is not a buildrequire nor a require for
> some rpms (their spec file need to be modified
> and they need to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut)

Indeed