On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:35 +0100, Alan J Robinson wrote:
> I'm trying to install the stable version of coot 0.1.2-1007 using Fink on Mac OS X 10.4 Power PC.
>
> Freeglut was installed as a dependency, but the installation of coot fails because it says that glut is
> not available.
when does it say that? A configure time?
where is freeglut? What is the command line passed to coot's configure?
> The only even remotely relevant info I could find on the net applied to Ubuntu under
> Linux, and said that gl.h was missing and gave Fink commands to access the mesa package, which
> does not apply here.
Maybe not. I think that the test for glut tests for the presence of
gl.h, so if there is a problem with gl.h, then the glut/freeglut test
will appear to fail.
>
> A complicating factor is that glut is now deprecated and freeglut is generally preferred.
Indeed. freeglut is freer.
> I don't know
> whether this is relevant. Another thing I don't understand about Fink is that a number of packages
> like coot and glut come in various flavors such as plain, dev, and shlibs, but the package
> documentation doesn't go into how these differ.
If you are compiling stuff, then you will quite likely need the shlibs
and the dev packages too (the dev packages often contain the headers).
> PS: The unstable version of coot is an even bigger installation disaster
Are you talking about the ysbl binary package?
> Does any of this depend on the Apple Developer Tools?
It depends on gcc and g++. I guess that's part of the Developer Tools
(not sure).
Paul.
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