X-7.3 & Mesa 7.0.1 vs. Tux Racer

[Dan Nicholson]

On Nov 19, 2007 10:36 AM, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 2007 7:56 AM, Brian Paul <brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> >> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >>> It is unfortunate that Tux Racer seems to have been orphaned some time
> >>> ago.  It has now reached the point where the last release (0.6.1) will
> >>> not build against the current GL.
> >>>
> >>> You get an absurd error message:
> >>>
> >>> checking whether glx.h defines glXGetProcAddressARB... no
> >>> configure: error: Your copy of glx.h is out of date.  You can get a more
> >>> recent copy from the latest Mesa distribution
> >>> (http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net).
> >>>
> >>> Is there any possibility of getting this to work, or is it hopeless?
> >>
> >> glXGetProcAddressARB is still defined in glx.h and will probably never
> >> be removed.  I don't recall any changes to glx.h with regards to that
> >> function/extension.
> >>
> >> Have you double-checked your glx.h file?
> >
> > It's trying to compile a dummy program like this
> >
> > #include <GL/glx.h>
> > int main() {
> > char *foo = (char*) glXGetProcAddressARB;
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > Looking at glx.h and glxext.h, the prototype is only included if
> > GLX_GLXEXT_PROTOTYPES is defined. Try this:
> >
> > CPPFLAGS="-DGLX_GLXEXT_PROTOTYPES" ./configure ...
> >
> Yes, that works, thanks.
>
> Now it appears that I will need to install an older GCC.

Try this patch instead:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/tuxracer/tuxracer-0.61-gcc34-1.patch

--
Dan