So if you build OpenDX the way you suggest with SGI OpenGL and then
run on a system with the Nvidia setup, do you get the benefit of the
true hardware rendering or should I provide a binary for both Nvidia
hardware and non-Nvidia hardware?
David
You do not have to make a softlink to install use --force --nodeps
For example
rpm -iUh opendx-4.1.3.i386.rpm --force --nodeps
This sould install without checking RPM dependencies.
As for as symbols are concerned, I think it will be a problem because
binaries are linked to libGL.so from nVidia which makes a dynamic call to
libGLcore.so.1. My versions of Opendx 4.1 for RedHat 7.0 were also compiled
at a workstation which had nVidia GeForce2 Ultra, but distribution to
public, installed SGI OpenGL in /usr/local and manually edited Opendx
Makefiles to link to /usr/local/lib/libGL.so
nVidia folks intentionally made libGL.so to depend upon libGLcore.so... just
a dirty business trick to convience non-nVidia users to buy their cards....
Suhaib
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