From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:16:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oam6g05q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tj8zt0k.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 25 Apr 2015 01:17:15 -0400")
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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-24 9:16 [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-04-24 19:07 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-04-25 5:17 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-04-29 20:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-04-29 20:25 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
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