Re: YAPSO in FC5

[Alexander Barth]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Alexander Barth wrote:
>> Hi Andres
>>
>> Unfortunately, OSMesa is not longer in Fedora (it used to be in
>> xorg-x11-devel in Fedora 4). I
>> compiled it myself from source
>> (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3). I use the
>> development release is 6.5.2. For me the easiest approach was to build
>> static libraries with:
>>
>> "make linux-x86-static"
>>
>> You need to set some environment variables to show where the libraries
>> are located before starting
>> octave:
>>
>> export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/abarth/local64/Mesa-6.5.2/include/
>> export LDFLAGS="-L/home/abarth/local64/Mesa-6.5.2/lib  -lpthread"
>>   
> 
> Actually, it's easier than this. There have been some package name
> changes in recent versions of Fedora. I think the package you want to
> install is mesa-libOSMesa-devel (This is FC6, I'm assuming it's
> available in FC5 as well.)
> 
> Quentin
> 
Thanks for the hint, but it seems that mesa-libOSMesa-devel is only available 
in FC6 (and FC devel).
Any way, it is nice to see that OSMesa reappeared in FC6.

Thanks,
Alex

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