Re: [openvrml-develop] openvrml in EPEL.

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 16:19 +0200, Steve Traylen wrote: 
> Hi Braden,
> 
>  I've been looking at what it would take to add openvrml to EPEL. I am
> interested to see openvrml availble from
>  CentOS 5.
> 
>  The only completely missing dependency for the  0.18.6-5 is gtkglext
> which can be built into EPEL with a trivial patch
> which I have.

gtkglext is in Fedora; would it be that hard to get it into EPEL?

> However after that it seems that glib amongst other items is to old
> e.g a lack of gio in it.
> 
>  Anyway, as per one of your mails in google I tried the 0.17 release
> and in particular the Fedora 12 .src.rpm
> 
>  But this has some problems with the available
> boost-devel-1.33.1-10.el5 (I can supply errors)
> 
> Have you tried , or are you aware of some successful builds on Centos+EPEL5.

I haven't and I'm not.

But I'd expect you to have to go farther back than Fedora 12 to find one
that would work with.  Looking through some old specfiles, it looks to
me like you'd have to go all the way back to Fedora 7 and OpenVRML
0.16.7 to find one that provides/requires Boost 1.33.1.

And FWIW, OpenVRML 0.16.x included its own copy of gtkglext; so at least
you wouldn't have to worry about that dependency.

It's my impression that RHEL6 isn't *that* far away; perhaps it would be
a better target for an EPEL effort?

-- 
Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>