I think the situation has improved somewhat. However, not only does XQuartz come with mesa, but anything in MacPorts that depends on OpenGL under X11 pulls in mesa as well. I know you masked mesa in favor of the hack that is x11-libs/opengl-apple.

It is possible to do the latter Jeremy Huddleston (the maintainer of XQuartz, and now apparently the release manager for X11 in general) figured out how to do it. Meanwhile, the 'system' glxinfo, which uses both system X11 libs and system OpenGL libs, does not crash.Įither we should link to the 'system' X11 libs, or we should start building our own Mesa. glxinfo) that links against these ancient OpenGL libs while also linking against newer X11 libs (like, say, the ones that get installed by portage) will die spectacularly (i.e. This ain't gonna fly with newer versions of the X11 libs. Right now, OpenGL 'support' in prefix on Mac OS consists of linking to the 'system' (read: the really old ones that come with the X11.app included with Mac OS) OpenGL binaries.

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