Accepted xorg 6.8.2-11 (source)

Matt Galvin matt.t.galvin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 14:09:24 CDT 2005


> How are OpenGL applications supposed to specify their build depends on
> GL and GLU headers? There are quite a lot of packages universe which
> FTBFS because xlibmesa-glu has been renamed. I see that build
> depending on libglu-dev-xorg seems to provide both GL and GLU headers,
> so many packages will build again.
> 
> But I don't know if that will not change in future again. So I'd like
> to know, what is the most robust way of specifying a build dependency
> on GL headers? And how for GLU headers? Is there some way to specify
> them in a way that the package will build in ubuntu as on debian
> autobuilders? (Yes, I'm maintaining also an opengl app in debian, and
> I'd like to keep them in sync).

GREAT question. I am also affected by this as I am trying to get some
game related packages into breezy and they depend on these gl and glu
packages.

sorry for the me too.

Matt



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