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Re: Where'd GL/GLwMDrawA.h go?



On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:34 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:51:27AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 09:10 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> 
> > > It appears that libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev is built from mesa 6.4.2, whilst
> > > GL-from-xorg is built from mesa 6.9.0.  
> > 
> > There's no such thing. 
> 
> No such which?  Mesa 6.9.0?  I got that from
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/xlibmesa-gl-dev which
> reads:
> 
>   Package: xlibmesa-gl-dev (1:7.0.22, 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6)
> 
> I was just guessing that 6.9.0.dfsg referred to the mesa sources.

It refers to X.Org 6.9, which shipped a copy of Mesa 6.4.


> > X.Org upstream no longer ships its own GL stuff
> > except for the GLX protocol headers, so this will all come from Mesa in
> > the future.
> 
> OK.  
> 
> But what is the state now?  Does xlibmesa-gl-dev come from upstream
> xorg?  Is it a version of mesa?  

No, in sid it's purely a transitional package to aid upgrades.

> If so, could it supply the GLw library as does libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev?

No, and I'm not sure what the point would be, given that it's just a
static library. Do you anticipate any problems with building against
libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev?


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