Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:56:52 -0800 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mesa Message-ID: <20030226135652.GD37397@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20030225224601.GA911@vega.vega.com> References: <xzpvfz8t4ki.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030225224601.GA911@vega.vega.com>
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:46:01AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > In today's world graphics/Mesa is only a placeholder - the real MesaGL > library is now buindled with XFree86 (and is tightly integrated with > GLX/DRI stuff so that it is no easy to unbuindle it), therefore if > XFree86 4.x is installed graphics/Mesa only installs libglu, which > doesn't change much from version to version. Therefore, your question > is really had to be directed to XFree86 guys instead. Yes, except that XFree86 doesn't come with libglut. I still think they made packaging an order of magnitude more difficult because of that. They should have created an interface that hooks Mesa rather than including an incomplete copy of it in XFree86 proper. Of course, there may have been good reasons for that, so I never really tried to investigate the reason for why XFree86 did it. But packaging-wise, their approach is wrong. There is still a point in upgrading Mesa, if it still contains extra libraries XFree86 does not include. puck% pkg_info -L Mesa\* Information for Mesa-3.4.2_2: Files: /usr/X11R6/include/GL/glut.h /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGL.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGLU.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3 Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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