Re: mesa-updates: call for patches

[John Kehayias]

> Details of changes below, which included some more ungrafting:
>
>>> Here is a list of what has been on my radar and I'll be looking to
>>> apply on the mesa-updates branch. If there's something I missed and
>>> you think makes sense here (e.g. lower level graphical/X related
>>> libraries) please let me know. And yes, I need to make a Mesa team. It
>>> is on my list!
>>>
>>> 1. ungraft libx11 and libxpm
>>>
>
> These are done.
>
> Also, since I didn't realize libx11 means building python, and rust,
> and so on, I figured I would ungraft more that was being rebuilt
> anyway. So nghttp2 and curl have been ungrafted.
>
> The only more involved change was in ungrafting curl (to keep another
> test skip for Hurd), in
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=00442f15d46cd9d5d02499827946d23426aad0ba&h=mesa-updates>
> and then running parallel tests (very nice speed up for building curl
> I came across in the documentation!) in
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=d70f2b788e56545f93dc24238d2617e20fde7460&h=mesa-updates>.
> Please do take a look in case I missed something here, but all built
> fine locally on x86_64 at least.
>
>>> 2. update mesa (23.2.1)
>>>
>>> 3. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65375> (libepoxy fix for GTK, see
>>> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64981>)
>>>
>
> These are done.
>
>>> 4. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65155> (mesa vulkan search-paths)
>>>
>
> I don't think this is a correct change as written (search-path should
> be in vulkan-loader if I'm understanding what is supposed to happen
> here). Anyway, will follow up on that issue and left it out for now.
>
>>> 5. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65153> (sdl2 vulkan-loader; and update 
>>> sdl2?)
>>>
>>> 6. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64637> (libdrm update; to even newer 
>>> version now)
>>>
>>> 7. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66727> (libxkbcommon update)
>>>
>>> 8. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64639> (pixman update)
>>>
>
> All these done (sdl2 was also updated to latest version).
>
>>> 9. submit patch for mesa team
>>>
>
> But not this one, the easy one :) It will be sent.
>
>>> Thanks everyone! And when you see the updates pushed on mesa-updates
>>> and builds become available, please do test and let me know. Or if
>>> you'd like to join this team of one, happy to have you on board.
>>
>> Sounds like a fine plan!  Thank you for tackling this!
>
> Happy to! Substitutes will eventually become available, but there's
> quite a few builds to be done. This takes care of some ungrafts and
> updates with I hope minimal disruption. I'll be keeping an eye out and
> using locally as well. Please test and report, thanks everyone!
>
> John

An issue was created to track merging the mesa-updates branch here:
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66964>. Please use that bug number as
needed (and cc me or use wide-reply in emacs debbugs).