Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Mar 1 01:22:33 UTC 2010
Hans de Goede wrote:
> AFAIK we have had problems like this before with various bits of Xorg
> (iirc) needing the sources of other bits to build.
>
> The "usual" solution for this, is to give a package a -source subpackage,
> which contains the extracted sources (and installs them under
> /usr/src
>
> So I think the best way to handle this is to package gluegen, and include
> gluegen's sources as a gluegen-source subpackage, and then make jogl
> BuildRequire gluegen-source.
Still, this is a very evil workaround. Can JOGL really not be fixed to use
an installed gluegen? Why does it need the source?
Kevin Kofler
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