[Now in AUR!] S3TC libraries for open source Xorg drivers

Question

Due to the typical retarded patent issues, S3TC support can't be packaged with Mesa or the Xorg drivers; instead, it's a separate set of libraries, available here, which probably cannot be distributed as a binary. It looks easy enough to install manually, but it would be nice if someone could maintain a PKGBUILD so users could let pacman keep track of it.
(Apologies if the libraries turn out to be illegal in the US or Canada; I had nothing to do with the software patent silliness.)
Edit: Forget the request, this doesn't look as bad as I thought... As soon as I'm certain it's working, I'll make a PKGBUILD and upload it.
Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-03-08 06:39:25)

Answer 1

FWIW it looks like binary distribution may not be such a huge problem, there's a binary package of this available for Debian. I would certainly like to see it as a binary, but let's not be hasty.
Anyway, I've uploaded the PKGBUILD. If you're using an Intel chipset, or a Radeon chipset with the OSS driver, and you have installed this and want to know if it's working, do this:
gxlinfo | grep -i s3tc
Obviously, feel free to report any problems.
Edit: here's the PKGBUILD.
Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-03-08 06:38:33)