[Fedora-packaging] Query regarding header inclusions

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi folks,

I need to package j3d-core[1]. The source includes a few headers that
fedora packages already provide. Is it OK to let them be or do I need to
get rid of these and make use of the ones that fedora packages provide?

The licenses are here[2][3]. The mention the included third party
headers as well.

If I need to remove them, can I simply symlink the fedora provided
headers here? Or do I need to edit the build system to make it point to
them? If you look at the source folder here[4], it has separate build
files for each platform/arch, so editing the build files would be a
little difficult. 

I've also noticed that multiple packages provide the headers. How does
one know which of these is the required one please?

> [root at ankur root]# repoquery -f */include/*/glext.h
> mesa-libGLES-devel-0:7.11-0.9.20110509.0.fc15.i686
> mesa-libGLES-devel-0:7.11-0.11.20110525.0.fc15.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-devel-0:173.14.30-1.fc15.x86_64
> mingw32-w32api-0:3.15-2.fc15.noarch
> gtkglext-devel-0:1.2.0-14.fc15.i686
> chromium-debuginfo-0:12.0.718.0-1.fc15.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-devel-0:173.14.30-1.fc15.i686
> mesa-libGL-devel-0:7.11-0.9.20110509.0.fc15.i686
> mesa-libGL-devel-0:7.11-0.11.20110525.0.fc15.i686
> mesa-libGL-devel-0:7.11-0.9.20110509.0.fc15.x86_64
> mesa-libGL-devel-0:7.11-0.11.20110525.0.fc15.x86_64
> mesa-libGLES-devel-0:7.11-0.11.20110525.0.fc15.x86_64
> gtkglext-devel-0:1.2.0-14.fc15.x86_64
> mesa-libGLES-devel-0:7.11-0.9.20110509.0.fc15.x86_64
> [root at ankur root]#

[1]http://java3d.java.net/

[2]
http://java.net/projects/j3d-core/sources/svn/content/trunk/THIRDPARTY-LICENSE-GLEXT.txt?rev=954

[3]
http://java.net/projects/j3d-core/sources/svn/content/trunk/THIRDPARTY-LICENSE-PANORAMIX.txt?rev=954

[4]http://java.net/projects/j3d-core/sources/svn/show/trunk/src/native/ogl?rev=954


Thanks!
Regards,
Ankur