Re: [openvrml-develop] openvrml-0.16.5: strange behaviour on FreeBSD.

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

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:07 +0200, Thierry Thomas wrote:

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> > > - to run it, I have to manually install libgdkglext-x11-1.0.so and
> > > libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so;
> > 
> > Weird. Perhaps this is something about the way libtool works (or
> > doesn't) on FreeBSD? gtkglext is included in the openvrml distribution
> > and the libraries you mention are used as "convenience libraries"--which
> > means that they should effectively be statically linked into
> > openvrml-xembed. That, anyway, is how it works on Linux.
> 
> Actually on FreeBSD they are not linked statically.

Well, they aren't quite literally linked statically on Linux, either.
automake/libtool recognize when a library in the package isn't installed
and "linking" to such a library actually pulls in all the .o files that
are part of the convenience library.

Note that libantlr is also a convenience library. The only difference
between it and the gtkglext libraries that comes to mind is that
libantlr is linked into a shared library (libopenvrml), while the
gtkglext libraries are linked into an executable.

>  Note that it's not a
> problem to install these libs manually, I was just curious.

Well, I'm guessing it would be a problem if you tried to install
gtkglext on your system as well. :-/

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