Re: [gentoo-dev] Nvidia GLX source

[gabor <gabor@z10n.net>]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 03:58, Bob Thomas wrote:
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> On the Nvidia web site, they have a source RPM (but no tar) for the GLX
> driver. I don't know what all is contained in it, but would it be
> possible to make an ebuild to extract the source from the rpm, compile
> it (optimized), and install it? If it were possible, I think it would be
> better than using the binary version. I would think that this would make
> prelinking possible if it were compiled right, and you could probably
> get performance gains by compiling it with your customized CFLAGS.
> 
> So, how about it? Has anybody looked at the source RPM from Nvidia? Has
> anybody tried compiling it? Can this be added to portage? Will I ever be
> able to play tuxracer again?

nvidia doesn't provide any kind of sources except some files to glue his
kernel-driver into the kernel. that's all unfortunately :-(((((

i checked the src.rpm, it's the same as the tar.gz

gabor
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