Upgrade the MESA driver on Ubuntu 10.4 Maverick

 

I am facing these days a critical issue in my PATRIA engine. 

 

I have been porting the engine, with the openGL shader support on OpenGL ES to face soon the usual problems about matrix transformation functions missing. My fault, I should have studied the matter much better before going so far.

 

Anyway, right now, I have a lot of artifacts on the screen that I suppose are due to the current version of MESA.

 

The version I have installed is the standard MESA version shipped with Ubuntu, the version 7.9 devel

 

OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel

OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

 

I have checked on the Ubuntu repositories and this is the latest one.

 

I have started therefore a process to upgrade the MESA version and I have downloaded the packages following the instructions present on the MESA website http://www.mesa3d.org/

 

While compiling the source code, I faced the following problem:

 

configure: error: makedepend is required to build Mesa

 

The makedepend requirement depends on the absence of the absence of the xutil-dev package.

 

In order to satisfy this dependency, run the following command on the shell:

 

 sudo apt-get install xutils-dev

 

 

 

 

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