[Bug 191776] Request add developer version of Xorg x11/xorg-devel

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191776

--- Comment #11 from Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to wjenkner from comment #9)
> (In reply to Jean-Sébastien Pédron from comment #8)
> 
> > xf86-video-ati-7.5.0 will be available in the future too. We didn't commit
> > 7.4.0 because it crashes for some users. So as soon as we are comfortable
> > with 7.5.0, it will hit the Ports tree.
> 
> Do you mean it "crashes" in the sense that the X server aborts?

Yes, the X server crashes during startup.

> I had this problem when compiling with clang, but it was sufficient to just
> address the two warning messages (with the suggested fixes) emitted during
> compilation of xf86-video-ati (see attached patch).  I don't know if this is
> a programming error or a clang optimization error, though.

The patch you attached exists in the port already:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/files/

However, we never sent it upstream, AFAIK...

> (And where did users report this kind of breakage in the experimental
> branch?)

I guess you can report bugs here, on Bugzilla, or, if we decide to switch to
Git, on GitHub.

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