Re: GLX vs Mesa vs OpenGL
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:14:17PM -0200, Taupter wrote:
> Joe Drew wrote:
> >
> > Something I've wondered about -
> > If I compile something against my version of MesaGL, which is
> > also linked against the Glide libraries, will it work on someone's
> > version of Mesa which, for instance, is accelerated on the G200?
> > I mean, Mesa has the same ABI everywhere, doesn't it? So there
> > should be no need to make multiple binaries/packages for different
> > things, right?
>
> Right.
>
The maintainers of packages that provide OpenGL compatability are
working on this very issue. We have decided to have all such
packages 'Provide: libgl1' and provide a symlink from libGL.so.1
to the relevant library (libMesaGL.so.3 in the case of mesa).
Ditto for libGLU.so.1. Packages should link using -lGL.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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