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

Hello Adrian,

It was not difficult after all. I managed to submit my first merge request.

https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/mesa-amber/-/merge_requests/1

Best regards,
Jeroen

On 4/10/26 13:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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