Only justification was this is a common package on Linux. Versioning issue's aren't worth the hassle though, disabled by default.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Brecht Van Lommel <[email protected]> wrote: > Correction: I meant that the default should be OFF. > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Brecht Van Lommel < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I also ran into this issue building Blender 2.8 on Ubuntu 16.04. >> Defaulting to ON seems indeed better to me, Linux distribution packages >> that want it OFF can still do that. >> >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Ray Molenkamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Not my regular platform, but I tend to help out the odd user with linux >>> building errors, and this >>> one comes up rather frequently >>> >>> In our cmakelist.txt we have an exception for linux that sets >>> >>> option(WITH_SYSTEM_GLEW "Use GLEW OpenGL wrapper library provided by the >>> operating system" ON) >>> option(WITH_SYSTEM_GLES "Use OpenGL ES library provided by the operating >>> system" ON) >>> >>> compared to all other platforms where it is off. >>> >>> I couldn't find a justification for it, but why are these options (unlike >>> all other >>> WITH_SYSTEM_* options even on linux ) ON by default? Especially glew >>> seems to be >>> problematic, even more so for blender 2.8 where we can't figure out if >>> it's glew 1 or 2 >>> at compile time so there's a runtime check in the final binary that'll >>> prevent code >>> compiled against 1.x from running. >>> >>> We ship with a known good copy in our source tree, why not use it by >>> default? >>> >>> --Ray >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
