Re: [Mesa3d-dev] GLw lib

[Brian P. <br...@tu...>]

Bruce Wampler wrote:
> 
> I hope this isn't off subject, but I just read a bunch of back issues, and
> didn't see this covered, so...
> 
> I just spent a bunch of time figuring out the details of getting the GLw lib
> working. This is from the latest Mesa release. Unfortunately, there seems
> to be no options in the configure script to build the GLw libs - either the
> Mesa version, or the SGI versions. You have to build them by hand separately,
> and then then only the Mesa version will build. I could not get the SGI
> version to build with the provides makefile.
> 
> It seems that late versions of some Linux systems - specifically RedHat 7.x and
> Mandrake 8.x include Mesa as an install option (and even require it!), but do
> not include the GLw libs. There are still a bunch of example programs and
> libraries (including my own V GUI) that use GLw, and now it has become a
> problem with late versions of Linux.
> 
> So I would like to respectfully request that an option be included in the
> Mesa configure to include the GLw libs, either the SGI or the Mesa versions.
> If the Mesa versions, then perhaps the install should include a symbolic
> link from libGLw.a to libMesaGLw.a so that all this existing code will
> compile without edits.

That would be good to have.  I hope someone will contribute the magic
to do so because I don't know enough about autoconf/automake to do
it myself.

Don't get me started on autoconf/automake - I've had nothing but
problems with it.

-Brian