Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 05/22/06 23:45 CST: > They are only installed if the optional MesaGLUT pacakge is > downloaded. I personally prefer to use freeglut since MesaGLUT is > based on the glut package from opengl.org. The last release of GLUT > was 3.7 dated 1998. Freeglut is more recent and maintained.
Point taken. However, I'm not concerned with how the GLUT library is installed, I'm concerned that the dependency lists the *entire* Mesa package. DJ said he would be touching this, but I'm going to do something about it today, unless someone provides a reason not to. It is just much too confusing to have "mesalib" listed as a dependency when all you need to satisfy the dependency is a glut library. BTW, here are my intentions: Place a note after the optional dependencies (actually just a normal paragraph), that says "If you installed the MesaGlut package during the installation of MesaLibs in an Xorg-7.0 environment, you can disregard the Glut dependency, as it is already satisfied." And then comment out the mesalib dependency. If someone can come up with a better solution, please jump right in. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 06:22:00 up 10 days, 22:22, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.07 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
