On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Randy McMurchy wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote these words on 03/21/07 09:42 CST:
>> make fails with freeglut-2.4.0. (Current stable version of the BLFS
>> book.)
>>
>> Is Mesa required? I didn't install it, since I use a Nvidia driver.
>
> Yes, GL libraries would be required. You could always install just
> the GLUT library from the Mesa distribution. There was just a recent
> thread on this. See the 'Xorg-7.1 + Mesa-6.5 thread in this forum.
>
Yes, I'll probably need Mesa, just to keep other packages happy.
Maybe I should ask a different question: Do I need a GLUT library? From
the "Introduction to freeglut", it appears it is needed for
developpement. Is this right? The only reason I tried to install
freeglut is that it is an optional dependency of LibTIFF, which is an
optional dependency of little cms-1.15, which is required for
libmng-1.0.9, which is recommended for QT.
So, maybe it isn't needed after all, for someone who wants KDE but who
is not a develloper?

The reason I didn't install Mesa was its dependencies, plus the fact
that the Nvidia driver provides acceleration and won't use Mesa.
Of course, I may have misunderstood it all.

Thanks,

Jorge Almeida
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