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   From: zeke@nosuchmail.com   
      
   "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   news:ik4896$4dk$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >   
   > Let me say it again: WINDOWS users. Did I mention how Free Software   
   > is handicapped on WINDOWS?   
      
   You forgot to mention hoe Free Software is handicapped on Linux.   
      
      
   SourceForge.net   
   The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library   
      
   The usefulness of this is that the MX support, by your admission, breaks API   
   compatibility, so responsible distributions cannot really turn on the MX   
   support so long as it just spits out a library called libGLEW.so.1 , as it's   
   not actually ABI compatible with *previous* libGLEW.so.1's. With this   
   change, distributions can ship a libglew-mx package containing   
   libGLEWmx.so.1 alongside the libglew package containing libGLEW.so.1, and   
   packages that want to build against the MX-supporting libglew can just build   
   with -lGLEWmx instead of -lGLEW. The patch also produces a glewmx.pc to aid   
   in this. (This bit is implemented somewhat dumbly: glewmx.pc and glew.pc are   
   both always generated in build stage, but the appropriate one is *installed*   
   at install time).   
      
      
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