Bug#568168: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau needs nouveau bits from libdrm

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-03-23 13:51 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 13:30:03 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> block 568168 by 568162
>> thanks
>> 
>> Now that the drm parts from 2.6.33 have been backported to the Debian
>> 2.6.32 kernel, packaging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau seems to be
>> desirable, but that needs a fixed libdrm which includes the nouveau
>> parts.
>> 
> No, it needs somebody who'd take care of packaging a suitable nouveau
> X driver.

I had just begun to tackle that task, using the ubuntu branch from
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau git as a starting point.

>  The libdrm bits are just a detail after that.

So?  My attempt to build xserver-xorg-video-nouveau was shortcut here:

,----
| checking if DPMSExtension is defined... yes
| checking for LIBDRM_NOUVEAU... configure: error: Package requirements (libdrm_nouveau) were not met:
| 
| No package 'libdrm_nouveau' found
| 
| Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
| installed software in a non-standard prefix.
| 
| Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBDRM_NOUVEAU_CFLAGS
| and LIBDRM_NOUVEAU_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
| See the pkg-config man page for more details.
| 
| make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
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Sven