Bug#241331: fix libGL builds on sparc
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:01, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:33:38PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > Attached is a patch stolen from xfree86's bugzilla (#923).
> > I've rediffed it, to fit into 4.3.0-7. Builds fine on sparc, and glx
> > apps are fine with indirect mesa rendering again.
> > (to get dri working with sunffb - fails initialization due to a missing
> > symbol - is another story; I will open a new bug for it sometime, after
> > testing a little fix discussed with DaveM)
> >
> > The corresponding upstream changeset can be found at:
> > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/GL/glx/glxext.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22
> >
> > I don't see any problematic license changes in it.
>
> Could you please check the log message of this commit? David Dawes has
> now taken to asserting licenses in CVS commit messages, and making
> people 'assume' that anything from him is licensed under the new, bad,
> license.
>
> Moral of the story: it's not worth taking stuff from XFree86
> unless it's contributed by someone external.
Andreas Schwab already posted the commmit changelog, thanks Andreas!
Well, IMHO the patch (at least most of it) is contributed by someone
external, namely Ferris McCormick, so I assume there are no license
problems to expect.
- Christian
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