Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686.

[taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Please, let's not do that.  We should be moving in the other direction,
>> by using less, not more, of the unbelievably massive amount of bundled
>> stuff in Qt.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> If this "fix" is the really best we can hope for from upstream, then
>> let's do it this way instead: after unpacking Qt 5, make a copy of
>> glext.h from *our* system Mesa, apply the above patch to that copy, and
>> arrange for that patched copy to be found first in the include search
>> path during the Qt build.  Then at least we will have only one copy of
>> Mesa in memory and only one copy of the Mesa source code to maintain
>> (for security fixes, fixes for non-Intel platforms, fixes for Guix,
>> etc).
>
> Sounds like a good plan.
>
>> Thanks again, Taylan, for working on this unpleasant task.
>
> Indeed, this is neither easy nor funny, but work in this area is
> definitely appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Seems I left this thread dangling; I sent a new patch in a new thread on
the meanwhile.  And it even seems to work this time. :-)

Taylan