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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:16:49 +0200
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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=E2=80=99.