From 4c5a2b3af214e7a0ec0742b17beb1e719552ecae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Nicholson
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:38:18 -0800
Subject: autoconf: Documentation for using the autoconf'd build
Most of the options available from configure are documented on the
autoconf.html. This page is reached as an alternative provided on the
install.html page. An FAQ about why there is no configure script has
been removed.
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docs/faq.html | 23 +++--------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
(limited to 'docs/faq.html')
diff --git a/docs/faq.html b/docs/faq.html
index 89496c8..30239dc 100644
--- a/docs/faq.html
+++ b/docs/faq.html
@@ -187,24 +187,7 @@ has Mesa packages (like RPM or DEB) which you can easily install.
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-Mesa no longer supports GNU autoconf/automake. Why?
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-- It seemed to seldom work on anything but Linux
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- The config files were hard to maintain and hard to understand
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- libtool caused a lot of grief
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-Now Mesa again uses a conventional Makefile system (as it did originally).
-Basically, each Makefile in the tree includes one of the configuration
-files from the config/ directory.
-The config files specify all the variables for a variety of popular systems.
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You're application is written in IRIS GL, not OpenGL.
IRIS GL was the predecessor to OpenGL and is a different thing (almost)
@@ -213,7 +196,7 @@ Mesa's not the solution.
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GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) is in the separate MesaGLUT-x.y.z.tar.gz file.
If you don't already have GLUT installed, you should grab the MesaGLUT
@@ -222,7 +205,7 @@ package and compile it with the rest of Mesa.
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On Linux-based systems you'll want to follow the