What benefit will makepkg & devtools users get if I unset the var before running printsrcinfo ?
I know that this is AUR helper again, but for example in yay
there is --devel
option which checks for new commits in git repo and updates package only if remote was updated. I also do understand that it seems to be irrelevant for llvm/mesa
which land new commits frequently. But running single command that updates all packages automgically is better than to do all this cd <some-path> && git fetch -p && git reset --hard origin/master && makepkg -si
for all packages manually. Because simple git pull
will just fail in case of new version in AUR and fact that pkgver
is dynamically updated in PKGBUILD
file. So those AUR helpers really help.
In case of [lib32-]mesa-git
this requires manual workaround to be involved like explicitly adding these packages to IgnorePkg
, because in case of update yay
automatically pulls llvm-git
, which is stated in mesa-git
.SRCINFO
.
You may ask why not to use llvm-git
from [mesa-git]
repo? In this case mesa-git
is also pulled from this repo instead of AUR and only option is to first install some llvm-git
binary package then disable this repo. And now we are in a loop, because we also need to IgnorePkg
llvm-git
which will be pulled from AUR in this case. [llvm-svn]
repo is not an option, it's very outdated. So having mesa-git
built from source requires also to rebuilding llvm-git
all the time, because there is no [llvm-git]
repo available with fresh version of llvm-git
. And keeping old llvm-git
build installed is worse than having stable version installed from official repo, because you lose not only stability, but also fresh new features in same time, because this build will be unstable and old in same time.
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Lone_Wolf commented on 2024-09-10 19:58 (UTC)
removed obsolete options, build now works again.
building opencl clover is disabled for now, see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11863
Those that need opencl should use rusticl instead. Note that rusticl at runtime is disabled by default, see https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#rusticl-environment-variables for info about enabling it.
Lone_Wolf commented on 2020-04-23 12:26 (UTC) (edited on 2023-03-30 07:04 (UTC) by Lone_Wolf)
Mesa and llvm are closely tied together. Everytime the llvm mesa is built against changes/updates , mesa needs to be rebuilt.
I expect anyone building mesa-git against one of the llvm trunk variants to be able to do that themselves, but atleast some of the people that built against repo llvm don't understand how to deal with such a rebuild.
The rest of this post is meant for those people.
Option A - best one
see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot for the official way or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clean-chroot-manager for an alternative method.
Option B - 2nd best
Lone_Wolf commented on 2019-07-09 13:43 (UTC) (edited on 2023-04-18 10:41 (UTC) by Lone_Wolf)
WARNING : aur helpers don't support this method at all. They check .SRCINFO and that doesn't include this variable so it will use the default which is hardcoded to build against repo llvm.
Why would I want to use llvm development versions ?
Lone_Wolf commented on 2018-01-30 14:06 (UTC) (edited on 2023-02-12 11:56 (UTC) by Lone_Wolf)
run pacman Syu update non-repo packages for llvm if you use them
build mesa-git, log out , update mesa-git and restart X .
run
glxinfo -B
to verify basic OpenGL functionalitybuild lib32-mesa-git
run
glxinfo32 -B
to verify basic OpenGL functionality for multilib programs