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[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com> wrote:
> scribe add xorg-modular from
> git_http://scm.sourcemage.org/smgl/grimoire.git:xorg-modular:devel-xorg-modular
>
> should work. git:// should work as well.
>
> FYI, updating to devel-xorg-modular from test is going to break a
> bunch of things that (IME) won't be caught by cleanse --fix, mostly
> because libpthread-stubs is missing a bunch of triggers. I'm somewhat
> working on finding them all, but I haven't had the time the past 4
> months or so. I already have a decent list of spells that need to be
> triggered that I should probably push to git though.

Found it out the hard way.  Actually using devel-xorg-modular leads to
a loop of dependencies broken, pretty hard to fix.  I considered the
effort not worth.  I had spent a lot of time reverting to test, since
then test was also broken, and again, cleanse doesn't help...

BTW, even devel-xorg-modular is pretty old.  The mesalib there is
8.0.* which doesn't still support nouveau.  9.0.1, does come with it,
but I couldn't make mesalib work correctly on 9.0.1 (well I did it,
but without the patch to copy the stuff where Xorg and company would
be able to find it)...  So at the end the purpose of using
devel-xorg-modular vanished, if at the end I would end up with similar
stuff I currently have...

Also the mesalib package is broken, cause though you can specify a
list of gallium drivers through $MESALIB_GALLIUM, build treats them as
just one.  For what it's worth, I changed a bit to:

for gal_dr in $MESALIB_GALLIUM
do
   case $gal_dr in
     llvm)    OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-llvm" ;;
     svga)    OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-svga" ;;
     intel)   OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-intel" ;;
     i915)    OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-i915" ;;
     i965)    OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-i965" ;;
     radeon)  OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-radeon --disable-gallium-intel"
        LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS/-s/}" ;;
     r600)    OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-r600" ;;
     nouveau) OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-nouveau --disable-gallium-intel" 
;;
     swrast)  OPTS="${OPTS} --enable-gallium-swrast" ;;
     none)    OPTS="${OPTS} --disable-gallium" ;;
   esac
done &&

Instead of the simple case...  Also I added configurable support for
vdpau on depends:

optional_depends libvdpau               \
            "--enable-vdpau"            \
                ""                          \
                "To enable vdpau (nouveau)" &&

Which makes sense pretty much mostly on nouveau (nvidia)...  And
finally but not least I changed to support nouveau as driver as well
on configure:

AVAILABLE_DRIVERS="i915 i965 intel r200 radeon nouveau swrast"

But again, I dropped it, since I can't spend more time than what I
already did, and I still have several other smgl tasks pending besides
devel-xorg-modular...

And getting to the question.  I tried what you mentioned through
scribe.  I sent what happened already in the prior e-mail.  Somehow it
shows errors.  And whether they are to be ignored, or by attempting to
fix them the local branch gets broken (modified without ability to
pull)...

So as the local repo was OK from the 1st place, what I did was not to
fix the grimoire, and do git pull any time wanted to then scribe
reindex.

Someone suggested using "localize xorg-modular", which marks it as
local, and then scribe won't update the branch ever, but one could do
it manually with git pull...

So that was my short experience (leading to broken state and pretty
hard to revert as well to test) with devel-xorg-modular...

Thanks,

--
Javier.