[Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Mesa3d-cvs] 'Mesa/include/GL Makefile.am'

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

[I'm moving this thread to mesa3d-dev]

"Jon M. Taylor" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Brian Paul wrote:
> 
> > jt...@us... wrote:
> > >
> > > Update of /cvsroot/mesa3d/Mesa/include/GL
> > > In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv8112/include/GL
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >         Makefile.am
> > > Log Message:
> > > Added a new configure.in flag, --enable-glut-build.
> > > This defaults to "off", so GLUT is not built by default.
> >
> > Why did you do this?
> 
> 1: There are several alternate version of GLUT present in the CVS
> tree, and there's no way to select which one to build right now.  If the
> "standard" GLUT (Mesa/src-glut) is built and installed (which was done by
> default), it wipes out any previously-installed libglut.so.

I wouldn't worry about the other versions of glut.


> 2: Many people don't need or want GLUT built in the first place, and it is
> used only for the demos.  It seems to be something of a standard in other
> packages built with auto* scripts to not build demos by default, so....
> 
> 3: I suppose that the "correct" solution would involve extending
> src-glut/* to be able to support GGI, BeOS, Win32, DJGPP, etc etc with a
> compile-time switch, but that's up to whoever's maintaining the GLUT
> sources.
> 
>         If you have any suggestions for neatening this up in a better way,
> please let me know.  I guess I could default it to "on" if you want.

So, what's the make <target> for building GLUT and the demos?

How about this:  build libGL and libGLU always.  Use 'make glut' to
build libglut.  Use 'make demos' to build GLUT and the demos.

-Brian