Hey Robert, the DESCR of xplanet says "An image that the user can rotate interactively can be popped up in a window using OpenGL or Mesa."
This is wrong. The documentation does not explain how to do this. The binary isn't linked with libGL: $ ldd /usr/local/bin/xplanet | grep GL $ And this is from http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/FAQ.php: The -animate option doesn't work any more. Will it be back in a future version? No. Getting this to work on multiple platforms was difficult. It generated a lot of complaints and I didn't like it much anyway. If you want this capability, Celestia is a much better OpenGL planet viewer than Xplanet ever was. See diff below. Thanks, Stefan Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/ports/x11/xplanet/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.42 diff -u -p -r1.42 Makefile --- Makefile 25 Jul 2008 14:12:56 -0000 1.42 +++ Makefile 4 Jan 2009 00:52:24 -0000 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.42 2008/07/25 14:12:56 martynas Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.41 2007/09/15 20:04:28 merdely Exp $ COMMENT= Draw pictures of the earth textured by an image DISTNAME= xplanet-1.2.0 -PKGNAME= ${DISTNAME}p0 +PKGNAME= ${DISTNAME}p1 CATEGORIES= astro geo x11 MAINTAINER= Robert Nagy <[email protected]> Index: pkg/DESCR =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/ports/x11/xplanet/pkg/DESCR,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 DESCR --- pkg/DESCR 24 May 2005 19:15:53 -0000 1.1.1.1 +++ pkg/DESCR 4 Jan 2009 00:52:12 -0000 @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ Xplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth into the X root window. Xplanet uses the Imlib library to read user supplied maps of the earth (or another planet). Orthographic and mercator projections can be -rendered to the root window or saved to a file. An image that the user can -rotate interactively can be popped up in a window using OpenGL or Mesa. +rendered to the root window or saved to a file.
