X.Org ports upgrade to 6.9 release

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Tuesday 27 of December 2005 07:36, Ben Jencks wrote:
> Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > As you might already know, new X Window System has been released by X.Org
> > a couple of days ago.
> > Anyhow, the first cut of patch for ports tree to upgrade X.Org ports to
> > 6.9.0 is here:
> > http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg/xorg-69/xorg-up-690-1.patch
> > It also does away with separate mtree file for xorg-* and dependent ports
> > so it touches a few of other ports as well.
>
> According to the 6.9 release notes, the bundled Mesa was upgraded to
> 6.4.1. It looks we don't use the bundled Mesa, but instead use the
> graphics/dri port, which is Mesa 6.2.1. Either graphics/dri should be
> upgraded to 6.4.1, or the bundled Mesa should be used.

Working on upgrade.

> It looks like newer versions of Mesa require libdrm to be installed.
> xorg-server installs libdrm.so, but not the pkg-config file Mesa
> requires. I made a port for libdrm that uses the distribution from
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/ but it would probably be better to
> use the one bundled with xorg, in extras/drm/libdrm. Should this be a
> separate port, or part of xorg-server or -libraries?
>  -Ben Jencks

Separate port I think, since we're going to go with modular X.Org 7.0 builds 
eventually anyway.
Thanks for noticing.


Dejan