On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:47PM +0100, SanskritFritz wrote: >> Well, patching the makefile with -lGLU solved the problem, no need to >> symlink libGLEW anymore. Can you please explain the reason? > ---end quoted text--- > > I am not sure about exact reason, but this may be related to two events: > > 1) Introducing --as-needed linker option by default in Arch (see this [1] > Fedora article for > explanation) - happend long time ago > > 2) Splitting GLU in separate package from Mesa - recent (compared to previous > change) > > In the past GLU was tightly integrated in Mesa and game developer probably > didn't consider it > separate dependency from libGL, worth explicitly linking to. > > [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange > [2]: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg26003.html
Thank you for the links and the explanation, things are starting to make sense for me now.
