Re: Bug#1133121: mesa-amber does not work on PowerPC - fix added

Hi Jeroen

On Fri, 2026-04-10 at 12:04 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> Mesa-amber does not build on PowerPC and other arches and a bug report
> with a fix has been sent (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1132854).
> The following patch not only fixes the build problem but also the usability
> of mesa-amber on PowerPC. 
> 
> Mesa-amber at present cannot co-exist with mainline mesa, that is one problem.
> Mesa-amber can now co-exist with mainline mesa by changing the debian/control
> file and by changing meson_options.txt.
> 
> Another problem is that in meson.build, there are no entries for ppc/ppc64. This
> has been fixed.
>  
> Please take note that most of this work was done by Alexis Lavie ([email protected]).
> Alex and I worked together to get mesa-amber working on PowerPC.

Thanks for your work! However, the mesa-amber package is not part of unstable yet
but is available on Salsa only [1]. I therefore suggest that you open pull requests
against the Salsa repository to get your changes integrated.

Adrian

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/mesa-amber

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