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

[Larry Brigman]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Michael Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>> 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-
>
> I know that CentOS is designed to be a server distro, but I figure since
> I tend not to update very often that it will be better to use CentOS
> than Fedora.  Sadly, the graphics aren't catching up and who knows when
> the next version of CentOS will be released.  I have the following
> sources which I compiled to install under /opt2 as the prefix.  How do
> I use them?  Do I have to install over the top of the older Mesa?

CentOS does get hardware updates.  The latest 5.3 update support the I7
processors and associated motherboards.

>
> [michael at eagle new_mesa]$ ls
> dri2proto-1.99.3.tar  libpthread-stubs-0.1.tar  schedtool-1.3.0.tar
> libdrm-2.4.9.tar      MesaLib-7.4.1.tar
>
> [michael at eagle opt2]$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
> /usr/lib
> /opt2/lib
>
>
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