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Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Patch Qt 5.4 for i686. |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:16:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> 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’.