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On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:29, José Fonseca wrote: |
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> I don't see how the first comment can be true as Mesa is an implementation |
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> of the OpenGL standard which, besides of source compatibility, also has |
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> binary compatibility within a platform. Mesa releases notes also don't |
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> mention nothing like that. |
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> Regarding the second comment I found the referring bug number 245. It says |
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> that NVIDIA can't use the SGI libGLU.la 1.3 included in Mesa >=3.5. If so |
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> then why is the same SGI libGLU 1.3 available trhu the sgi-oss-glu ebuild? |
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> Stranger is that the "Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO" |
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> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/) uses Mesa |
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> 4.0.1 in the tutorial, but on the other hand the author does state that |
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> "not had time to test all the procedures"... |
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> So it seems that there is quite a bit of misunderstanding. Is it mine or |
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> should I fill in a bug report? |
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Point is ... experience shows that those included with xfree |
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works 99% of the time, if not 100%. If you want to use |
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4.0.1, go for it ... you just get to keep the pieces. |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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