#1146483 mesa: EGL should be enabled on ppc64

Package:
src:mesa
Source:
src:mesa
Submitter:
Jeroen Diederen
Date:
2026-09-02 10:47:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1146483#5
Date:
2026-09-02 10:13:43 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

EGL is disabled by the Debian Mesa packaging on ppc64.

Without EGL enabled, Mesa does not work correctly on ppc64. In particular, the resulting Mesa installation is not usable for normal EGL-based graphics applications.

I have tested this on real ppc64 hardware (PowerPC 970/iMac G5). Adding the following to debian/rules fixes the problem:

```
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH), ppc64)
        confflags += -Degl=enabled
endif
```

With this change, Mesa 26.2.1 builds successfully and the resulting Mesa installation works correctly on ppc64.

The attached patch, mesa-egl-ppc64.patch, adds this ppc64-specific configuration.

Please enable EGL when building Mesa for ppc64.

Best regards,
Jeroen Diederen