Re: YAPSO in FC5

[Quentin Spencer]

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