RFC: x11r7.7 patch series
You can find my work on updating to x11r7.7 on gitorious at
https://gitorious.org/willw-buildroot/willw-buildroot/commits/remotes/gitorious/x11r7.7
There are a few parts to the patch series I am not sure about:
- I have deleted all packages not in the 7.7 release, this may remove things people still use and feel should still be in buildroot
- I had a problem updating mesa3d. The newer versions rely on host libxml2 with python support. There are a couple of patches to do this but I don't particularly like these. If someone can come up with something better then great.
- There was one package I couldn't compile xdriver_xf86-input-synaptics. Didn't spend any time on trying to fix it though (I suspect broken in current buildroot as well).
Regards
Will
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Le Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:55:02 +0100,
Will Wagner <[email protected]> a ?crit :
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You can find my work on updating to x11r7.7 on gitorious at
https://gitorious.org/willw-buildroot/willw-buildroot/commits/remotes/gitorious/x11r7.7There are a few parts to the patch series I am not sure about:
- I have deleted all packages not in the 7.7 release, this may remove things people still use and feel should still be in buildroot
Most likely if they have been removed upstream, they are unmaintained, and we should remove them as well.
I've seen that a fair amount of packages are removed, but I haven't seen any new package. Is this normal? No new components in 7.7 compared to the older release we have in BR?
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- I had a problem updating mesa3d. The newer versions rely on host libxml2 with python support. There are a couple of patches to do this but I don't particularly like these. If someone can come up with something better then great.
Erk. I've seen what you've done, and even though is certainly the easiest solution, I don't like it a lot. Until now, we have tried to avoid the need for options on host packages...
Do you have some details on why the mesa3d package needs libxml2 with python support?
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- There was one package I couldn't compile xdriver_xf86-input-synaptics. Didn't spend any time on trying to fix it though (I suspect broken in current buildroot as well).
Ok.
Regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com
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Le Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:55:02 +0100,
Will Wagner<[email protected]> a ?crit :Quoted 6 lines
You can find my work on updating to x11r7.7 on gitorious at
https://gitorious.org/willw-buildroot/willw-buildroot/commits/remotes/gitorious/x11r7.7There are a few parts to the patch series I am not sure about:
- I have deleted all packages not in the 7.7 release, this may remove things people still use and feel should still be in buildroot
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Most likely if they have been removed upstream, they are unmaintained, and we should remove them as well.
I've seen that a fair amount of packages are removed, but I haven't seen any new package. Is this normal? No new components in 7.7 compared to the older release we have in BR?
I do not believe they have added any apps since 7.5
I used this link http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/ and made sure that every package listed there was built in buildroot.
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- I had a problem updating mesa3d. The newer versions rely on host libxml2 with python support. There are a couple of patches to do this but I don't particularly like these. If someone can come up with something better then great.
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Erk. I've seen what you've done, and even though is certainly the easiest solution, I don't like it a lot. Until now, we have tried to avoid the need for options on host packages...
Do you have some details on why the mesa3d package needs libxml2 with python support?
I have not gone into too much detail, however it seems like the build process auto generates some part of the code from a python script (See
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/mesa/main/APIspec.py)
I could not find any config option to not regenerate this and instead use a prebuilt one, but perhaps I wasn't looking in the right place.
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- There was one package I couldn't compile xdriver_xf86-input-synaptics. Didn't spend any time on trying to fix it though (I suspect broken in current buildroot as well).
Ok.
Regards,
Thomas
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ Will Wagner will_wagner at carallon.com Development Manager Office Tel: +44 (0)20 7371 2032 Carallon Ltd, Studio G20, Shepherds Building, Rockley Rd, London W14 0DA ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Le Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:22:23 +0100,
Will Wagner <[email protected]> a ?crit :
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Most likely if they have been removed upstream, they are unmaintained, and we should remove them as well.
I've seen that a fair amount of packages are removed, but I haven't seen any new package. Is this normal? No new components in 7.7 compared to the older release we have in BR?
I do not believe they have added any apps since 7.5
Ok.
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I used this link http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/ and made sure that every package listed there was built in buildroot.
Great.
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- I had a problem updating mesa3d. The newer versions rely on host libxml2 with python support. There are a couple of patches to do this but I don't particularly like these. If someone can come up with something better then great.
Erk. I've seen what you've done, and even though is certainly the easiest solution, I don't like it a lot. Until now, we have tried to avoid the need for options on host packages...
Do you have some details on why the mesa3d package needs libxml2 with python support?
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I have not gone into too much detail, however it seems like the build process auto generates some part of the code from a python script (See
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/mesa/main/APIspec.py)I could not find any config option to not regenerate this and instead use a prebuilt one, but perhaps I wasn't looking in the right place.
Argh, another X11 package (xcb) also needs XML support in Python, but it needs expat support, so we have added support for expat in the host python sometime ago. It's really a shame that another part of X11 requires a different XML library in Python :-(
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com
Dear Will Wagner,
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You can find my work on updating to x11r7.7 on gitorious at
https://gitorious.org/willw-buildroot/willw-buildroot/commits/remotes/gitorious/x11r7.7There are a few parts to the patch series I am not sure about:
- I have deleted all packages not in the 7.7 release, this may remove things people still use and feel should still be in buildroot
- I had a problem updating mesa3d. The newer versions rely on host libxml2 with python support. There are a couple of patches to do this but I don't particularly like these. If someone can come up with something better then great.
- There was one package I couldn't compile xdriver_xf86-input-synaptics. Didn't spend any time on trying to fix it though (I suspect broken in current buildroot as well).
What is the status of this work? Do you plan to submit it?
Thanks!
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com