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Title: Custom mesa-git on ubuntu 18.04

f95-2 31 Oct 2018

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Hello.
I am trying to use custom-compiled mesa on my ubuntu.
I know that there are ppa's with already compiled mesa, but for some reason i do not want to use them, and want to compile it myself.

So I dowloaded llvm7, got mesa sources, did
CC=/opt/llvm-7/bin/clang CXX=/opt/llvm-7/bin/clang++ LLVM=/opt/llvm-7 scons build=release
and compilation seems to be alright.

I got build/linux-x86_64 folder with some stuff.

However, I cannot figure out what to do next.
Guides I found in internet seems to be outdated or I just cannot understand them.

Could you guys show me direction?

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Liam Dawe 31 Oct 2018

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Have you looked on our Wiki Page? I didn't write it and I don't use Mesa personally, so not sure how much help it will be. Just in case you didn't see it.

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f95-2 1 Nov 2018

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It is not working for me at step 2 :)

sudo apt-get build-dep mesa

Got the error

Вы должны заполнить sources.list, поместив туда URI источников пакетов

(in Russian, yes. It means I have to fill sources.list by placing URI of package sources there).
Cannot find how to fix that.

Also, in the guide, the author wrote

I checked how the official distro package is configured

However, ob Ubuntu there is no 'mesa' package, but bunch of packages like mesa-utils, mesa-common-dev and so on.
Have no idea which configuration I have to use.

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Guppy 1 Nov 2018

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Haven't tried it my self yet, but the official build instructions seem fairly straight forward;
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa#build-install

Current meson version for 18.04 is 0.45.1 so that should work?

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Guppy 1 Nov 2018

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Managed to reproduce the "fill in sources " error on a blank machine, the fix is;

- open "Software & sources" from the menu
- check the "Source code" box
- Close ( & reload )

now sudo apt build-dep mesa will work

However meson still can't build on my 18.04 - because libdrm_intel is too old ( need 'libdrm_intel' ['>=2.4.95'] found '2.4.91' )

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