On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> please comment on my hack to symlink libGLEW.so > > Please do not do such thing. If binary version of package depends on > outdated version of library, rebuild this package from source. If source > version of package is incompatible with newer version of library, patch > it or link it statically with older version of library. > >> and on demonicmaniac's comment about adding -lGLU to >> LDFLAGS in the makefile. I searched google about -lGLU and understand >> that it would be needed for OpenGL usage. But the game builds and runs >> fine here without that flag, so why should I patch the makefile? > > If it worked earlier, it should continue to work without additional > hacks. If it is linked against GLU, add "glu" to package dependencies.
Well, patching the makefile with -lGLU solved the problem, no need to symlink libGLEW anymore. Can you please explain the reason?
