[PLUG] libpthread-stubs and X seems to be changing...

[drew wymore]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Michael Robinson <plug_1 at robinson-west.com
> wrote:

> I'm running CentOS 5.3 which is undoubtedly more stable than Fedora.
> I'm updated as much as I believe I can be but Mesa is too ancient to
> support Secret Maryo Chronicles and Command and Conquer Red Alert for
> example.  I want to upgrade Mesa, but finding the home page and
> grabbing the source for Mesa-7.4.1 I find that there is a libdrm
> dependency and grabbing libdrm-2.4.9 source code I find that there
> is a pkgconfig pthread-stubs.pc dependency.  Digging deeper on
> freedesktop.org I find that X is apparently changing radically.
>
> Has anyone updated CentOS enough to run Command and Conquer Red
> Alert under Wine?
>
> Yeah I suppose I could drop in another hard drive and try another
> Linux distribution, but which one?
>
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CentOS is really designed to be a server distro so that's why the stuff is
older. They don't upgrade as often because it's not necessary and they
follow RHEL releases. I don't know if it'll work but you could try adding
the Fedora repo's and see if you can grab the newer mesa stuff you need.

Drew-