Re: [Plib-users] problem (with plib) while installing SimGear(FlightGear)

[Sebastian U. <ud...@ha...>]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, sjb...@ai... (Steve Baker) wrote:
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 18:46:01 -0500
> To: ud...@ha...
> From: sjb...@ai... (Steve Baker)
> CC: pli...@li...
> Reply-To: sjb...@ai...
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] problem   (with plib) while installing 
> SimGear(FlightGear)

[...]

> At the risk of repeating myself...
>
>   glut.h, gl.h, glext.h, glu.h ...and all their little friends
>   belong in one place - and one place only:
>
>      /usr/include/GL
>
> ....if you see them anywhere else - remove them.
>
> If you don't do that then some programs (which happen to be tolerant)
> will find them - and others (which happen to be pedantic) will not.
>
> Similarly with the library files - which should be in /usr/lib/ and
> nowhere else.

As I said, Steve:

"[...] /usr/include/GL/, /usr/local/include/GL/ or /usr/X11R6/include/GL/,
then everything should be fine (well, in the last case Steve might argue
that things are not fine [...]"

But it does not help anyone to confuse end-users by telling them that their
distribution put the OpenGL files at the wrong place. It are the
distribution makers that must be blamed.


- Sebastian