Comments on: Xorg-server 1.6 preview in Gentoo’s x11 overlay

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:56:55 +0000

Will nouveau also make it into x11 overlay (in near future)?
(A note in driver ebuilds supporting KMS would be a nice bonus, supporting as not conflicting with KMS or not touching GPU registers behind KMS’s back)

By: finkler

finkler — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:53:16 +0000

Without sounding too pushy, but what is soon?
Is it worth the wait, or should I go for the overlay?

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:51:05 +0000

Yep. I expect to add 1.6 soon. The XCB rebuilding script is OK, and the only other thing I’m thinking about is some xinit changes.

By: finkler

finkler — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:09:51 +0000

That did happen now, didn’t it?

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:38:30 +0000

For some unknown reason, there’s still no upstream release of x11-apps/xrandr that actually works.

By: ahilo

ahilo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:19:27 +0000

How does it look with the progress, is there any estimate how long it will take before xserver 1.6 reaches ~x86? It has already been one month

By: cruzki

cruzki — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:15:04 +0000

I tried today and I succed

Using xcb-rebuilder.sh I recompile 10 packages and seems that all is working now.

PS: I think 10 packages is not a lot of packages to rebuild, maybe this is because am I ussing –as-needed?

By: Uzytkownik

Uzytkownik — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:38:20 +0000

It is far from being perfect but this one-line may help (at least it seems help me):
emerge -av $(for la in `ls /usr/lib/*.la | xargs grep ‘libxcb-xlib.la’ | sed ’s/:.*$//g;’`; do equery b -e $la | grep ‘[^\[]‘; done | awk ‘{print “>=”$0}’)

By: Uzytkownik

Uzytkownik — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:16:40 +0000

Update: I finally understood what you mean. However broken .la files is build issue not runtime (i.e. lack of or broken .la file on moder *nix should not prevent running app – only building it).

By: Uzytkownik

Uzytkownik — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:58:59 +0000

Well. Basicly la files have nothing in common AFAIK with runtime linking. All it do is to “help” linking using linking.

revdep-rebuild uses ldd which checks if shared libraries (lib.*\.so) are present and valid and therefore if program can be loaded (althought it does not check the symbols table only NEEDED entries). la on the other hand are used only during linking by libtool – not during runtime on modern *nixes (correct me if I’m wrong).