A quick grep through the source code does not exhibit any glut* tokens. Is the glut dependency rendered obsolete, can the freeglut source get removed from the repository?
glu (The GL Utility functions glu*()) is still required, but since it usually ships with the GL and is not part of glut, freeglut is still obsolete. (Debian/Ubuntu users have to install libglu1-mesa-dev).
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glu (The GL Utility functions glu*()) is still required, but since it usually ships with the GL and is not part of glut, freeglut is still obsolete. (Debian/Ubuntu users have to install libglu1-mesa-dev).