[OE-core] proposal: replace GLUT with FreeGLUT

[Khem Raj]

> On May 10, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Neena Busireddy <neenareddy.busireddy at nxp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> GLUT is dead upstream for almost three years now ( https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/ <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut/>  ) and it makes sense to replace GLUT with FreeGLUT .
> Some of the reasons to replace with FreeGLUT are listed here :
> http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/ <http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/>
> 
> Also, current mesa-glut recipe does not generate GLUT library. I tested this when I enabled GLUT in mesa-demos.
> 
> I discussed this issue with Otavio and he suggested to replace GLUT with FreeGLUT and upgrade mesa-demos to 8.3.
> 
> Any suggestions or thoughts?

This is a good move. other distros use freeglut too so you can drive some stability out of that
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> 
> Thanks,
> Neena
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