44313 – Blender does depend on glx, but it's not marked as a dependency

Bug 44313 - Blender does depend on glx, but it's not marked as a dependency

Summary: Blender does depend on glx, but it's not marked as a dependency

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project

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Reported:	2004-03-10 19:33 UTC by Gustavo Ramos
Modified:	2005-12-14 09:54 UTC (History)
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Description Gustavo Ramos 2004-03-10 19:33:03 UTC

Blender depends on glx, and trying to build blender on a system without glx fails, without trying to install it. i.e:

emerge -p blender does not say it needs glx

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Gustavo Ramos 2004-03-10 19:34:01 UTC

Sorry, forgot to mention the blender version:
blender-2.32

Comment 2 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2004-03-11 13:25:48 UTC

what you mean with glx?

Comment 3 Gustavo Ramos 2004-03-13 01:46:16 UTC

I was refering to the X glx extension.

Ok, I solved it. It was a configuration issue: In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config I uncommented the line

    Load "glx"

and all went fine. However, when compiling blender, the script should display a notice telling the user that the glx extension is needed for blender to run and should be installed *and* enabled :-)  Should this be filed as a new bug?

Comment 4 Denilson Sá Maia 2005-12-14 09:54:31 UTC

This is an old bug, I know, but just for your information, it is possible to run 
blender even without GLX extension. Just use "blender-static" binary from 
blender site. This binary has a software-based GLX statically linked, and should 
work on most systems.