Comment # 1 on bug 1082312 from Stefan Dirsch

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #0)
> - libudev - not required since Mesa 13.0.0
>  - openssl - not required since Mesa 17.0.0
>  - third party (bison, flex, python*) - same as above
> 
> (python still needed because of src/gallium/drivers/r600/egd_tables.h
> missing in release tarball?)
> 
> > > python is required when building r600 from taballs with
> > > 17.2/17.3/18.0 as src/gallium/drivers/r600/egd_tables.h is missing.
> > >
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103911
> 
> (addressed upstream meanwhile)

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:42:06 +0000
From: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de>
Cc: mesa-maintainers@lists.freedesktop.org, Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Mesa-maintainers] Downstream Mesa patches and quirks
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>> > Thanks - missed that one. Patch done -  will do a full(~ish) run and
>> > send it out.
>>
>> What does that mean? python is not needed at all for building when using
>> release tarballs? That would be completely news to me.
>
> Haven't seen this patch yet in git. Any pointer available? Is it planned to
> release this fix with Mesa 18.0.0 final, so with this release tarball python
> is no longer need? I would really like to get rid of the python buildrequires.
>
Haven't send out those patches - got stuck fixing the gl.pc (the
Fedora/Arch patch that you carry) and ton of related bits.
Ideally it'll be in 18.0.0 final, but if not - keep an eye open on the
bugfix release notes.

-Emil