Re: Mesa 26 update work

I'll try seeing if I'm able to get it to work with it split back.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM Charlie Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kenneth Raplee wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wanted to let you know I've done work on updating the Mesa ports to
> > version 26.0.5 and would like to discuss and work with you about it. :)
> >
> > https://codeberg.org/kenrap/freebsd-ports/pulls/4 <https://codeberg.org/
> > kenrap/freebsd-ports/pulls/4>
> >
> > One of the things I want to mention is about the mesa-dri and mesa-libs
> > split. I found that merging them back to graphics/mesa made it so that I
> > can launch Plasma Wayland after much build testing and experimentation.
> > Beforehand, Plasma Wayland would act as if the radeonsi driver didn't
> > exist (it was installed) until I did this approach.
> >
> > Also in Mesa 26, libosmesa got removed and there are some ports that
> > still have it as a build option or hardcodes the dep.
> >
> > I'm hoping to get Mesa updated in the ports tree to help the community.
> :)
> >
> While I have something similar with -dri and -libs merged back into a
> singular port, manu@ (with x11@ hat) has told me on separate occasions
> that merging is a non-starter. This is complicated by how to deal with
> meson build options affecting functionality in libgallium.so and other
> issues.
>
> Ultimately something something subpackages but still.
>
> --
> Charlie Li
> ...nope, still don't have an exit line.
>