[MINC-users] Register's configure test for GLUT

[Alex Zijdenbos]

That configure.in works - at least that will alert (loudly) anybody
trying to build Register and friends that something is amiss right at
the outset... I would suggest to put it in the next release of the
affected packages.

Thanks!

-- A

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmmm - so I would say there is something that doesn't entirely line up
>> there. If these dependencies exist, shouldn't installing the glut
>> packages draw these other libraries in as well? I guess the
>> Ubuntu/Debian package dependencies don't follow the same conventions
>> or logic as the autoconf archive...
>
> Very likely.  I would say it is more a case of GLUT being a crusty old
> thing that is not used much anymore (in deference to QT/itk/vtk/GTK+
> and thus the dependencies are not that well checked.
>
>> Attached where?
>
> I guess the list strips attachments. Try this:
>
> http://mavis.anu.edu.au/minc-beta/configure.in
>
>> On that note, what is the 'minc-tools' package that has ended up in
>> the standard ubuntu distribution, and how did it get there? :)
>
> Steve Robbins. (And he still maintains it).  It is a proper "Debian"
> build of MINC itself in which the library, dev stuff and tools are
> split up as they "should be" according to Debian policy.
>
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