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Hi Dirk, |
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On 05-04-2009 16:35:36 +0000, Dirk Tilger wrote: |
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> while working on getting Mesa to compile on my Mac through Gentoo-prefix |
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> I noticed that apparently a Mesa already comes with MacOSX. The |
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> media-libs/apple-opengl package (which is an adaptor of the OS-OpenGL |
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> into the prefix) under MacOSX contains also a symlink for GL/osmesa.h, |
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> see: |
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> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/changeset/34132/trunk/prefix-overlay/media-libs/apple-opengl/apple-opengl-1.ebuild |
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> The interface osmesa.h specifies is for offline rendering only. It is a |
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> mesa centric interface. I would therefore vote for it to be removed and |
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> instead provided by a mesa package (that I'm happily willing to |
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> contribute as soon as it works). |
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> The mesa coming with the MacOS is version 4 according to the headers, |
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> while the current mesa is 7.4. |
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Is there anything that would break if we remove this symlink? And does |
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it make sense to have both mesa and apple-opengl installed? I thought |
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mesa provides an opengl implementation? I'm not to familiar with this |
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stuff, so please tell me if I'm wrong. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |