[2517] in Release_7.7_team
Re: OpenGL/Mesa on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Dec 13 00:59:41 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:59:31 -0500
Message-Id: <200012130559.AAA18267@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200012061934.OAA22628@astrophel.mit.edu>
Hi. I've looked into the Mesa issue a bit this evening, and thought I
would give my findings and opinions in advance of the release team
meeting.
First, the Athena release is not really a good place for software
which has to be kept up to date on a monthly basis. We don't like to
upgrade upstream versions of software in the Athena release outside of
a full release. It is better to put such software in a locker.
Second, I looked at the Mesa distribution and didn't find any evidence
that the same binary library cannot be used with multiple accelerated
graphics cards or with multiple CPUs. I did find a bug in the
configure script which prevented the 3dnow acceleration support from
getting compiled in by default as it ordinarily would be.
> 3. Getting all the required libraries together can be tricky- for
> example, libglut.so is not part of the latest Mesa 3.4 source
> package, but it is in the Mesa rpm now on Linux-Athena, Mesa-3.2-2.
The RPM in Red Hat 6.2 was built from a 2000-01-13 CVS snapshot from
the Mesa repository, which evidently included the glut sources even
though the actual Mesa 3.2 release did not.
