Re: opengl terminal driver (was povray terminal driver)

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:48 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 01:28 pm, Ga=EBl Varoquaux wrote:
> >=20
> > > Personally I am in favour of the second option. Freeglut is
> > > standard/available in Debian, Ubuntu, and (as I understand
> > > it) Fedora/Red-hat.
> >=20
> >     How about my objection about library dependancies, if it makes any
> > sense ?
>=20
> I don't think there is a 100% solution to this problem.
> Sadly, freeglut and other glut implementations are not perfectly
> compatible.  If you try transferring a binary linked against,
> say X.org glut, to a machine that has nVidia drivers and glut libs
> you are likely to crash the application, X11 itself, and possibly
> the whole machine.  [As I have learned the hard way].

hmm. I can't say I've had any problems myself. I'm not sure how many of
the opengl apps I have use glut, but certainly things like upgrading
from Xfree86 to X.org haven't caused me any issues.

Anything that crashes X11 is a bug in the server.

Rob

--=20
Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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