Yes, that worked and hyperscene.a was created, very cool!
I then discovered that neither libepoxy nor mesa have static libs installed on Ubuntu. After getting the source, installing over 20 additional libraries and figuring out how to turn on static compile it failed after an hour of compiling (crappy machine). So not quite successful yet but close enough to be worth trying again. Maybe setting up a guix box for this kind of work would be more sensible?
Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to fix hyperscene.
Matt
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