2009/7/19 Allan McRae :

Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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Dear Arch Devs,

I'm reposting this mail to arch-general because I was ignored on arch-dev-public.

You can not post to arch-dev-public so your message was not ignored, we just never saw it.

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I wonder what should be done about the "blender" package in [extra]. The package hasn't been updated for quite some time (it is correctly marked out-of-date), a few bug reports have been filed for it, it doesn't build anymore and the package maintainer doesn't answer my mails. What can be done in such a case?

So the package is out-of-date and the new version does not build?  Could be a reason why it is not updated...

Anyway, the way this tends to be dealt with, is someone posts a working PKGBUILD here and another dev updates it.  If this happens regularly for a package, either another dev with take over maintenance or it will be dropped to [community].

Allan

IMO the problem is that you (devs) use make to build blender which is several years deprecated and probably no-one builds blender this way. Maybe they've dropped support for it completely. I suggest using SCons. Maybe you can reuse my blender-svn PKGBUILD from AUR, only thing that has to be changed for this purpose is the part where data is downloaded from SVN server. There is one problem which I'm aware of with this package – it installs blender executable in /usr/share/blender and adds wrapper to /usr/bin. I'll probably move blender to /opt in near future. Lukáš "stativ" Jirkovský

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:29:20PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2009/7/19 Lukáš Jirkovský :

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IMO the problem is that you (devs) use make to build blender which is several years deprecated and probably no-one builds blender this way. Maybe they've dropped support for it completely. I suggest using SCons. Maybe you can reuse my blender-svn PKGBUILD from AUR, only thing that has to be changed for this purpose is the part where data is downloaded from SVN server.

There is one problem which I'm aware of with this package – it installs blender executable in /usr/share/blender and adds wrapper to /usr/bin. I'll probably move blender to /opt in near future.

There is also a request about building to SCons: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14893 and there is a PKGBUILD too (for stable, not svn version).

That PKGBUILD needs a cleanup; depends and makedepends are wrong. I'll soon post an updated version. FYI I had success with the NaN method. The "key" is (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14766#comment46628): export NAN_DEBUG=-O Today I'll work for a PKGBUILD.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:28:51PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

On 19.07.2009 12:42, Alessandro Doro wrote:

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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:29:20PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2009/7/19 Lukáš Jirkovský :

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IMO the problem is that you (devs) use make to build blender which is several years deprecated and probably no-one builds blender this way. Maybe they've dropped support for it completely. I suggest using SCons. Maybe you can reuse my blender-svn PKGBUILD from AUR, only thing that has to be changed for this purpose is the part where data is downloaded from SVN server.

There is one problem which I'm aware of with this package – it installs blender executable in /usr/share/blender and adds wrapper to /usr/bin. I'll probably move blender to /opt in near future.

There is also a request about building to SCons: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14893 and there is a PKGBUILD too (for stable, not svn version).

That PKGBUILD needs a cleanup; depends and makedepends are wrong. I'll soon post an updated version.

FYI I had success with the NaN method. The "key" is (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14766#comment46628): export NAN_DEBUG=-O Today I'll work for a PKGBUILD.

I fixed both packages and uploaded them. Take whichever you want. http://doubleskill.de/svens_stuff/blender-pkgs.tar.gz

So you're providing a (scons) PKGBUILD for x86_64 with '-march=i686' and '-mtune=generic' compile flags? Note that all you need (no sedding) for the NaN method is, not reviewed: export NAN_NO_PLUGIN=true export NAN_PYTHON_VERSION=2.6 export INTERNATIONAL=true export WITH_BF_OPENMP=true export NAN_USE_FFMPEG_CONFIG=true export NAN_ODE=/usr export WITH_VERSE=true export NAN_DEBUG=-O and a patch (assuming we DO want sound): - NAN_SND_LIBS += $(NAN_OPENAL)/lib/libopenal.a + NAN_SND_LIBS += -lopenal in source/Makefile