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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2000 13:08:54 -0400
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GLUT w/o Mesa?
Message-ID:  <39354726.C8DEEFDD@glue.umd.edu>
References:  <39352C97.267E71AA@glue.umd.edu> <20000531130216.I22499@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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Will Andrews wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:15:35AM -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > Didn't find this in the archives. What happened to sorting by date? I
> > really miss that.
> >
> > Now that XFree 4 comes with Mesa builtin, how does one install GLUT w/o
> > installing the Mesa port (thereby overwriting the builtin files)? Yes, I
> > know I could hack the port, but it seems that there should be either a
> > separate GLUT port or an ONLY_GLUT switch on the current Mesa port. Am I
> > the only one with this problem?
> 
> This is an XFree86 problem.  Those stupid !@%!@ (don't get me started)
> need to remove GL includes from their distribution.  GL belongs
> separate, pure and simple.
> 
> You are SOL until they do this, sorry.. (I'm sticking with 3.3.6 until
> they get their stuff straight).

Will there be any problem with installing Mesa over the XFree stuff? The
way I understood it was that the included libs were needed to support
the DRI stuff. Does the Mesa port handle this?

-Brandon


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