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@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ This is Chrome's local copy of the GLEW library, which is currently
used to interface to OpenGL and extensions to implement the WebGL
specification.
-Compared to the original distribution, the implementation of
-NSGLGetProcAddress has been changed to use the standard dlfcn.h
-functions rather than the deprecated mach-o/dyld.h ones.
+Compared to the original distribution:
+
+ - GLEW was changed to dynamically look up the OpenGL 1.1 entry
+ points in addition to those for later OpenGL versions and
+ extensions. This was necessary to be able to stop linking directly
+ against libGL.so on Linux due to http://crbug.com/16800 .
+
+ - The implementation of NSGLGetProcAddress has been changed to use
+ the standard dlfcn.h functions rather than the deprecated
+ mach-o/dyld.h ones.
+
+ - A GLEW_NO_GLU #define was added to prevent including GL/glu.h.
Originally obtained from http://glew.sourceforge.net/ . The
LICENSE.txt from that distribution has been preserved here.