On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 04:56:41PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:59:12PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:12:09AM +0200, Marco d'Itri scrawled: > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 -lGL > > > > Hold on, doesn't this render the entire -gl/-glu fix moot? > > Why would it? Shared libraries depend on other shared libraries all the > time. > > In theory Mesa's libGL.so.1 is the same as every other libGL.so.1; such > objects are supposed to conform to the OpenGL ABI specification. So I > don't see why one shouldn't be able to mix-and-match one vendor's libGL > with another's libGLU. > > Also, some objects will link against libGL but not libGLU, so shipping > libGLU with libGL is sometimes gratuitous.
Right, wasn't thinking; sorry. > If we're going to be busting xlibs up into tiny bits (one package per > shared library), I do not see why the same logic shouldn't apply to > xlibmesa. Fair enough, then. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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