[Paraview] Question about mangled mesa/osmesa

[Orion Poplawski]

Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:34 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> As of FC5, Fedora has stopped shipping libOSMesa because the upstream 
>> mesa project has made it very difficult (impossible?) to build a single 
>> libGL that supports both DRI and OSMesa.  I'm looking into packaging a 
>> mangled mesa version for Fedora Extras that paraview could use.  My 
>> question is: when using VTK_USE_MANGLED_MESA, is the resulting paraview 
>> able to use both the "native" OpenGL (Mesa with DRI in this case) as 
>> well as the OSMesa library provided by the mangled version, or do you 
>> need separately compiled paraviews for the two uses?  I'm assuming the 
>> former is the case when using VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> 
> Building Mangled Mesa for Fedora Extras is a good idea! I've never had
> ParaView with mesa and mangled mesa working though. I hear the mangling
> in the newest stable version is broken somehow.

Any details on this?

> I've always assumed VTK_USE_MANGLED_MESA and VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA were
> mutually exclusive, because if OpenGL had an OSMesa I wouldn't need a
> Mangled Mesa. Maybe that's why it never works for me.

Those options are.  I'm wondering if using VTK_USE_MANGLED_MESA would 
somehow prevent that version of paraview from using on screen rendering. 
  I'm guessing not, but would like to be sure.

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