Re: [patch #7986] opengl detection rewrittring

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Peter Simons <address@hidden> wrote:
> Update of patch #7986 (project autoconf-archive):
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>                   Status:                    None => Ready For Test
>              Assigned to:                    None => simons
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> Follow-up Comment #1:
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> Hi Bastien,
>
> thank you very much for your efforts and for submitting this updated macro to
> the GNU Autoconf Archive! I pushed your macro in commit
> e985a139c09f06711b7a63e508d583f6f7d2dfd9
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf-archive.git/commit/?id=e985a139c09f06711b7a63e508d583f6f7d2dfd9>.
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> One thing I wonder is whether maybe we should choose a new name for this macro
> instead of re-using the old one? I don't feel strongly about it -- AX_CHECK_GL
> seems quite appropriate --, but there is at least some danger that people
> would confuse the macro we distribute with the ones Braden distributes at his
> web site <http://code.google.com/p/autoconf-gl-macros/>. What are your
> feelings about this issue?

They are already six different version incompatible between then of
this macro according to a code search done in september.

I plan to readd ax_check_glut, ax_check_glu and ax_check_glx.

Then perhaps I will add ax_check_egl (but it will need some more depends)

Bastien

> Take care,
> Peter
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