Re: [openvrml-develop] openvrml in EPEL.

[Steve T. <ste...@ce...>]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Braden McDaniel <br...@en...> wrote:
> 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?
>
The patch I have is to the Fedora one, it's just a trivial .spec file change.
This can be done for sure and I'll do it if the subsequent items can
be resolved.

>> 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.

Yes RHEL 5 is for sure embarrassingly out of date in places these days.

> 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?

Indeed, we will be running RHEL5 for another 3 or 4 years at least I
expect, still
have some RHEL3 in some places :-),:-(.

Will have a go with an older version, I realise GL/Graphics/ .. is a
fast moving world.
(For what it's worth FreeWRL, is just as hard to build.)

  Steve

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