On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 02:23:41PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > In both BLFS-7.2 & 7.4 installing GLU is under the Mesa section, with > typical instructions for installation, but it isn't clear where it's to > be extracted to, the Mesa directory or one of it's own? In 7.6 it's got > its own section. Am I to presume that applies to 7.2 & 7.4 also?
In the 7.4 book it is presumably extracted into the Mesa directory, but to be honest it does not matter *where* you extract *any* of the tarballs, as long as you can read and write there. So, 7.6 is arguably more correct. GLU used to be part of Mesa, and that is probably why it was shown as an additional download. From memory, TeX and LibreOffice are the main things that use it (unless something in ne of the desktop environments decided to use it, that I do not know), so if you do not use those, you might not need it. The book still has some historical baggage - the things that always rub _me_ up the wrong way are (i.) building Xorg packages in xc/ which is totally unnecessary, but dates from when monolithic X (6.8?) was broken up (6.9?) and allowed people to check that the before and after versions did the same thing and (ii.) concentrating on all the legacy Xorg fonts (I only use one size of the Adobe fonts, and font-misc-misc, every other font is ignored in favour of TTF/OTF fonts - but I also ignore xterm in my own builds in favour of urxvt : for a long time I did not have even those two legacy fonts, but xscreensaver error messages are definitely easier to read with them installed. I'm sure therre are many other things which are somewhat old fashioned, but in the case of the fonts I failed to persuade the other editors, so I have to remember that 'Everything is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds'. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
