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Date:      Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:31:19 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: GLUT w/o Mesa?
Message-ID:  <39363B77.112E008C@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <39352C97.267E71AA@glue.umd.edu> <20000531130216.I22499@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <39354726.C8DEEFDD@glue.umd.edu>

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Brandon Fosdick wrote:

> 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?

AFAIK Mesa port doesn't work on XFree 4.0 (at least I couldn't get it working on
my -current box running XF 4.0). As for your original question, there is
stand-alone glut library at: http://reality.sgi.com/mjk_asd/glut3/glut3.html.

-Maxim




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