Re: [IGT PATCH] README: list some of the dependencies

Anca Emanuel
2013-10-08T23:50:01Z

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10

sudo apt-get install libpciaccess-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpciaccess-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Hmm. You need to discuss this with your dristro maintainers.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:19:06PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
>> ---
>> README | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/README b/README
>> index 653bfcd..a04c987 100644
>> --- a/README
>> +++ b/README
>> @@ -96,3 +96,15 @@ debugger/
>> initiating connections with debug clients..
>>
>> The debugger must be run as root: "sudo debugger/eudb"
>> +
>> +DEPENDENCIES
>> + This is a non-exchaustive list of package dependencies required for
>> + building everything:
>> +
>> + libpciaccess-dev
>> + libdrm-dev
>> + xutils-dev
>> + libcairo2-dev
>> + swig2.0
>> + libpython3.3-dev
>> + x11proto-dri2-dev
>
> I guess my gripe with this kind of thing is people always tend you use
> distro specific package names. Can we somehow prevent it though?
>
> $ sudo pacman -S libpciaccess-dev
> error: target not found: libpciaccess-dev
>
> --
> Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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