From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mesa >=3.5 masked!?
Date: 20 May 2002 23:14:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1021929278.6483.117.camel@nosferatu.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020520142936.E8474@localhost>
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:29, José Fonseca wrote:
> I don't see how the first comment can be true as Mesa is an implementation
> of the OpenGL standard which, besides of source compatibility, also has
> binary compatibility within a platform. Mesa releases notes also don't
> mention nothing like that.
>
> Regarding the second comment I found the referring bug number 245. It says
> that NVIDIA can't use the SGI libGLU.la 1.3 included in Mesa >=3.5. If so
> then why is the same SGI libGLU 1.3 available trhu the sgi-oss-glu ebuild?
> Stranger is that the "Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO"
> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/) uses Mesa
> 4.0.1 in the tutorial, but on the other hand the author does state that
> "not had time to test all the procedures"...
>
> So it seems that there is quite a bit of misunderstanding. Is it mine or
> should I fill in a bug report?
>
Point is ... experience shows that those included with xfree
works 99% of the time, if not 100%. If you want to use
4.0.1, go for it ... you just get to keep the pieces.
--
Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-20 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-20 13:29 [gentoo-dev] Mesa >=3.5 masked!? José Fonseca
2002-05-20 21:14 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]
2002-05-20 22:32 ` José Fonseca
2002-05-21 13:28 ` Lars S. Jensen
2002-05-21 15:44 ` José Fonseca
2002-05-21 15:56 ` José Fonseca
2002-05-21 21:51 ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-05-21 23:13 ` José Fonseca
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