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Re: Mesa for Linux on Athena 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri May 4 17:01:35 2001
Message-Id: <200105042101.RAA32382@astrophel.mit.edu>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:01:30 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
A follow-up to my earlier mail about this:
I now have a working libGL.so.030401 (and related links/libs) for Linux-
Athena 9.0. Unfortunately this won't work for Linux-Athena 8.4, because
it uses libglide3.so.3 which is not available in Linux-Athena 8.4.
Given this I think the right thing to do is put this in a locker, and remove
the broken Mesa-3.4-13 rpm from the release- I have new versions of all
the libraries in that rpm, and can also supply the .h headers needed for
development.
I propose making /mit/mesa/lib be the standard location for the
"current release" of the libraries, with the corresponding headers in
/mit/mesa/include/GL. mesa can be an AFS link to a current version locker,
like mesa_v030401 at the moment, which will be the real locker containing
the bits.
I'll make lib an AFS @sys link to accomodate the different libraries for
Athena 8.4 and Athena 9.0. This is similar to, but a bit more complicated
than what I do already for the Sun compiler dynamic libraries found
through /mit/sunsoft.
I'll proceed to implement this unless I hear objections.
Alex
