On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:52, Luis Sismeiro wrote: > The test I have done was with a cvs version of freeglut from last > saturday (14/01/2006). Really? That's interesting, as several others have got back to me to say that freeglut CVS fixed the problem (as the freeglut mailing list archives also would led me to think). Are you 100% sure you don't have any remnants of the older version on your computer that are being picked up instead? Have you recompiled everything that depends on freeglut to be 100% sure? Please note that these are helpful suggestions, not an argument :-)
If the problem really has come back again, I think we should be considering switching to using SDL by default. > Yes, the problem is reported on the Web but it doesn't help anyone > that is trying FlighGear for the first time. For many the steps > "./configure && make && make install" are the only steps they know to > compile software, and it isn't difficult. The problem is this kind of > showstoppers that happens in some software like in freeglut. It is a real pain in the neck and I was fully expecting a plague of complaints when 0.9.9 was released. There have actually been remarkably few since then... But I have to say, when I was starting out with Linux and free software in general (quite a few years ago now), I quickly developed a habit that remains to this day. If any compile failed, I'd check what the web had to say about it. As your knowledge grows, of course, you find that you can sort most of the problems you come across yourself, but if not, google nearly always provides a solution. > You mentioned something that I asked on the original post, should be > preferable to use SDL instead of (free)glut? On the documentation it > is always written that freeglut (or glut) is mandatory to compile and > use FlightGear, I never saw anything about SDL. As ever (and as with most projects) the documentation lags behind but as you discovered, SDL is a very real option. There are minor differences related to things like keyboard handling, but nothing major - it should all work. I've been using SDL myself for a while now as it seems to work slightly nicer with kwin than freeglut did. If your distro provides freeglut-2.4 then you are best just using SDL unless you have a pressing reason not to. > I am not trying to make a war with anyone, nor the freeglut > developers, nor the FlightGear developers. No, I do appreciate that... sorry if I sounded a bit grumpy in the last post, I'm just getting a little bit tired of answering the same question over and over again! Then again, this is the users list (and I'm not a fgfs developer) so I suppose I should expect less. I'm sure I suggested we should have a big "FREEGLUT-2.4 IS BROKEN, USE SDL" warning in the readme supplied with the 0.9.9 source - obviously that isn't there, but IIRC there was supposed to be a warning added to the documentation somewhere about the problem... Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
