[OE-core] proposal: replace GLUT with FreeGLUT

[Burton, Ross]

On 10 May 2016 at 19:12, Neena Busireddy <neenareddy.busireddy at nxp.com>
wrote:

> GLUT is dead upstream for almost three years now (
> 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/
>
>
>
> Also, current mesa-glut recipe does not generate GLUT library. I tested
> this when I enabled GLUT in mesa-demos.
>
>
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> I discussed this issue with Otavio and he suggested to replace GLUT with
> FreeGLUT and upgrade mesa-demos to 8.3.
>

You might want to CC oe-devel too, as mesa-glut is part of meta-oe.

I'm surprised that mesa-glut doesn't build the glut library, but I have no
interest in glut so you can do whatever you want in my opinion. :)

Ross
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