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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Mesa header in media-libs/apple-opengl-2
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:26:57
Message-Id: 20090407062638.GC11482@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Mesa header in media-libs/apple-opengl-2 by Dirk Tilger
1 Hi Dirk,
2
3 On 05-04-2009 16:35:36 +0000, Dirk Tilger wrote:
4 > while working on getting Mesa to compile on my Mac through Gentoo-prefix
5 > I noticed that apparently a Mesa already comes with MacOSX. The
6 > media-libs/apple-opengl package (which is an adaptor of the OS-OpenGL
7 > into the prefix) under MacOSX contains also a symlink for GL/osmesa.h,
8 > see:
9 >
10 > http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/changeset/34132/trunk/prefix-overlay/media-libs/apple-opengl/apple-opengl-1.ebuild
11 >
12 > The interface osmesa.h specifies is for offline rendering only. It is a
13 > mesa centric interface. I would therefore vote for it to be removed and
14 > instead provided by a mesa package (that I'm happily willing to
15 > contribute as soon as it works).
16 >
17 > The mesa coming with the MacOS is version 4 according to the headers,
18 > while the current mesa is 7.4.
19
20 Is there anything that would break if we remove this symlink? And does
21 it make sense to have both mesa and apple-opengl installed? I thought
22 mesa provides an opengl implementation? I'm not to familiar with this
23 stuff, so please tell me if I'm wrong.
24
25
26 --
27 Fabian Groffen
28 Gentoo on a different level

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