Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:11:40 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mesa Message-ID: <20030226141140.GA6079@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20030226135652.GD37397@procyon.firepipe.net> References: <xzpvfz8t4ki.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030225224601.GA911@vega.vega.com> <20030226135652.GD37397@procyon.firepipe.net>
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:56:52AM -0800, Will Andrews wrote: > 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ it's just a symlink to make some apps happy > /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGLU.so ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ it's just a symlink to make some apps happy > /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3 libglut is originally stuff contrinuted by SGI and AFAIK it doesn't change much from one version of Mesa to another. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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