Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [Fwd: Link problem for Mesa 3.5 - patch included]

[Sven M. H. <pe...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:19:04AM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> > Hmmm, is libGL.so even supposed to link against -lMesaOS?
> 
> No.  The other way around: libOSMesa depends on libGL.

Hehe, oh of course. So now I've switched things around accordingly: libGL no
more depends, even knows, anything about libMesaOS. libMesaOS however is
linked against, and therefore depends on, the libGL built.

Looks here as if everything's correct, can you verify?


> > But libMesaOS is supposed to be installed, right?
> 
> Right.

OK. Set to be installed in libdir.


> The libOSMesa.so library contains the code which implements the OSMesa
> interface functions like OSMesaCreateContext(), OSMesaMakeCurrent(), etc.
> 
> I've split this off from the core GL library to be consistant with
> XFree86.  It's also a better design.  If an application has a dependency
> on the OSMesa interface, it should express that dependency in its
> library bindings.

I see now, thanks.
-Sven

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