Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 20:39:50 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, sf@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and include/GL/glu.h Message-ID: <3B210DE6.E938A4B4@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010608122321.W3278@bohr.physics.purdue.edu>
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Will Andrews wrote:
> Well people,
>
> It looks like XFree86 has (once again) decided to break more GL
> programs by including their own version of include/GL/glu.h (I
> still don't understand why they can't just include the entire
> !%!@$%^@#$ MesaGL implementation instead of just *part* of it).
>
> I ran into the problem when I tried to compile Alex's new
> games/tuxkart program. This situation is completely unacceptable
> and so I feel we must take a more drastic approach:
>
> 1) Turn graphics/Mesa3 into a master port, and create a new
> graphics/libglut, for which only include/GL/glu*.h and its
> associated files will be compiled. It will be a slave of
> graphics/Mesa3 and will exist to help provide packages for
> XFree86-4.
> 2) Make x11/XFree86-4{,-*} depend on libglut, and dike out any
> files from it that conflict with libglut.
>
> Comments? I think I'm going to stuff this into updating
> x11/XFree86-4-* along with turning x11/XFree86-4 into a metaport.
>
> I'll check for incompatible changes in the fork that XFree86
> decided to create of MesaGL{UT}. *sigh*
Several days ago I've sent a patch that fixes that problem to portmgr@
consideration. Check your archives for details
-Maxim
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