Andres Loeh wrote:
Thanks for the pointer -- I had seen some other thread, but not this one. The dependencies still seem to be "broken" in Gentoo, but apparently SuSE also patches, so it's really broken somewhere else.
Hmmm, I've just had a look at the Gentoo package list and the Mesa version seems to be 3.5, which is almost 3 years old. Is this really what is used on current Gentoo systems? There have been tons of bug fixes and feature additions since then in the Mesa libs.
This is an excerpt from Gentoo's package.mask file: # Only use the mesa and mesa-glu provided with x11-base/xfree, # as the external ones gives problems in most cases with DRI/DRM. # Nvidia users do not use it anyhow, and tdfx users report that # it works fine with the mesa included with xfree. If you do # unmask these, make sure that you know what you are doing, and # know that if anything breaks, then you get to keep the pieces. # # azarah (26 May 2002)
=media-libs/mesa-3.0 =media-libs/mesa-glu-3.0 =media-libs/sgi-oss-glu-1.0 =media-libs/oss-opengl-glu-1.0
This means that the 3.5 mesa package is masked and cannot be used by Gentoo users except if they edit the package.mask file first. I do not know if the reason still applies, though. On the other hand, the xfree-4.3.0-r6.ebuild does indeed read PROVIDE="virtual/x11 virtual/opengl virtual/glu virtual/xft" I'd still like to solve the whole problem, but I can not invest many hours right now. I'll see what I can do ... Best, Andres