On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 23:09, Nathan Gray wrote:
> Felix Kühling wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 20:59:32 -0700
> > Nathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to build from CVS but I'm seeing something unexpected.  The
> >> build
> >> is trying to link to X libraries outside of the DRI tree itself.  In
> >> host.def I altered the ProjectRoot variable as so:
> > 
> > Leif Delgass describes a procedure to build DRI in a new ProjectRoot
> > directory on his mach64 pages:
> > http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_HOWTO.html. It's similar to what
> > Ian described, except that you make symbolic links instead of copying
> > all the libs and headers. make install will overwrite everything that is
> > rebuilt from DRI sources.
> > 
> > Not that Leif uses the -ignorelinks option to lndir. I believe it's
> > better to go without -ignorelinks. Works for me for ages.
> 
> This is a good idea.  I thought of trying this but it's good to know that it
> works.  I've also added this info to the FAQ.

This shouldn't be necessary at all though - have you tried the patch I
posted?

> I have one last question.  Is it safe to have mismatched foo_dri.so and
> foo_drv.o?  I'm using a CVS version of radeon_drv.o that has several fixes
> that I can't do without, but I'd also like to get some of the recent fixes
> to the radeon DRI driver.  So can I just upgrade radeon_dri.so and the
> radeon.o kernel modules?

Sure.


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