[Plib-users] Re: BUG: GLX Context in RH 7.0 and 7.2 (fwd)

[<ha...@sl...>]

I asked them about the Mesa differences.  The email is attached, for your
information.

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Brian Hayward

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:47:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike A. Harris <mh...@re...>
To: ha...@sl...
Cc: dk...@re...
Subject: Re: BUG: GLX Context in RH 7.0 and 7.2

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 ha...@sl... wrote:

>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 00:29:09 -0600 (CST)
>From: ha...@sl...
>To: Mike A. Harris <mh...@re...>
>Cc: bu...@re..., dk...@re...
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>Subject: Re: BUG: GLX Context in RH 7.0 and 7.2
>
>Mike,
>
>I just tested out the version you provided and it does indeed fix the
>problem I reported!  Thats cool to see, thanks.

Great to hear.

>I do have a question:
>When doing a diff between the full release of Mesa 3.4.2 and this
>release of 3.4.2-8 from redhat, why is it that there are bugs that were
>fixed in Mesa 3.4.2 which are still not fixed in the redhat version?  That
>seems only possible if you pulled Mesa from CVS before the 3.4.2 release
>was actually sent out, and then called it 3.4.2.

Our Mesa 3.4.2 is a tagged checkout of the 3.4.2 release from
Mesa CVS, so it is whatever Mesa CVS labelled as 3.4.2, or it
certainly should be anyway.  The Mesa source does not support DRI
by default, so we have hacked in the DRI support from Mesa 3.4.2
that is part of XFree86 into our Mesa package.

This usually begs the question "why use separate Mesa", to which
the answer is that the Mesa that comes with XFree86 does not
support OpenGL on XFree86 3.3.6 servers, and we need to provide
that functionality for our customers.

If you know of bugs that have been fixed in Mesa 3.4.2 since its
release, that are not fixed in our Mesa package, I would be more
than happy to hear about them, and try to add those fixes in as
well.

Thanks again for pointing out this flaw to us!

Take care,
TTYL

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