commit 758b451fcc3e4c25bc33567df3057e7a9a06586a
parent a81b07cc09bd27e79c775bf8b8f0897cbbbc1e44
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 08:10:30 +0100
Add some clarifications re. building Mesa
Mostly as a pretext to stick a footnote. There shall be margin notes
in this saga, so says I.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/guides/sysadmin/machines/amdahl30/killing-time.org b/guides/sysadmin/machines/amdahl30/killing-time.org
@@ -241,9 +241,17 @@ not overwork it to death?
- {{{narrator(10 false leads later)}}}
- The factory@ announcements say Mesa was upgraded from 24.2.7 to
24.3.0 in snapshot 20241124. The Mesa docs explain how to test
- "local" (uninstalled) builds (kudos!) so gave it a shot: a
- freshly built 24.2.7 behaves exactly like the current version,
- so no smoking gun there.
+ "local builds" (i.e. uninstalled; kudos![fn:mesa-builddeps]) so
+ gave it a shot: a freshly built 24.2.7 behaves exactly like the
+ current distro version (24.3.4), so no smoking gun there.
+
+[fn:mesa-builddeps] Took some trial-and-error to get a build going:
+~zypper source-install --build-deps-only Mesa~ did not cut it.
+Probably should have looked at Tumbleweed's spec file to get a
+matching build configuration; instead ~zypper install~'ed my way to
+victory - needed ~libclc llvm llvm-devel libLLVMSPIRVLib-devel clang
+clang-devel python3-ply rust rust-bindgen rust-cbindgen~.
+
- In [[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon/-/issues/164][upower/power-profiles-daemon#164]], @Nyan reports problematic iGPU
capping; not convinced this is applicable though, given the reported
