re: Repeatable X crash in RADEONBlockHandler_KMS

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On Tue 04 Dec 2018 at 01:04:51 +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > i strongly recommend not mixing xsrc and pkgsrc libGL.  ie,
> 
> I didn't do that. I made sure that all GL-requiring packages use the
> pkgsrc version, and glu and gle and libdrm too:

but you are mixing libGL in xorg-server vs the apps.  that's the
problem i'm guessing at..

> > .. anyone want to make it truly easy to cross compile x11
> > in pkgsrc from build.sh? :-)  then we can retire xrsc, and
> > these sorts of problems should go away.
> 
> I really consider X to be part of the base system, not as extra
> installed packages. I update my packages for the stable branches, and I
> don't want to restart my X server every 3 months! It loses my session
> and I hate that.

i think you misunderstand my desire.  while one could do this,
what i'm really after is a way to have them built from pkgsrc
but installed relatively normally.

i totally feel the same way -- i never want to restart my X
unless it's a security issue in the server or the libraries
the server uses.

i don't know how possible this is, but first step would be to
get things building first.

--

there's a fairly basic issue that we don't have a solution
for yet wrt Mesa and xsrc -- many of the backends now require
llvm.  most of the radeon has switched, and some of the others
are heading that way.  however, base's llvm doesn't install
all of the necessary libraries that are needed for this, and
we don't build llvm by default (and doing so massively 
increases the from-scratch build time.)

this is the main reason i want pkgsrc to eventually replace
xsrc -- but i want to keep all the basic features that xsrc
has provided over the years.


.mrg.