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Jacek Poplawski

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OpenGL manuals

I have SDL manuals, but don't have OpenGL manuals, for example "man glBegin" gives nothing. Which package should I install?

demonus

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Re: OpenGL manuals

http://www.rush3d.com/reference/opengl-bluebook-1.0/

Jacek Poplawski

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Re: OpenGL manuals

I know how to reach documentation online, I mean OpenGL manuals I always used in Linux. Is there arch package with them?

demonus

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Re: OpenGL manuals

no, there isn't one. anyways it seems that opengl 1.5 manuals are not available for free, are they?

Jacek Poplawski

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Re: OpenGL manuals

IIRC they were always in Mesa or XFree86/xorg packages.

demonus

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Re: OpenGL manuals

just noticed that they are present, strange try

man glBegin

function names appear to be case sensitive

Jacek Poplawski

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Re: OpenGL manuals

Great!
Now could you tell me which package I am missing?

demonus

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Re: OpenGL manuals

[maciek@playbox ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/X11R6/man/man3/glBegin.3x
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/glBegin.3x is owned by xorg 11R6.8.2-6

strange

Cerebral

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Re: OpenGL manuals

Jacek, you're running Xorg 7, aren't you?  This might be classifiable as an "xorg7 bug" since I guess the best place to include them would be mesa... but they're obviously not there.

Jacek Poplawski

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Re: OpenGL manuals

Of course I use xorg7
So OpenGL manuals are available in old xorg, but are missing in new one?
Maybe one should create man-pages-GL or Mesa-man package...
I still haven't started making packages, but one day I will can (have few applications installed which are not available in pacman).

encelo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-02-23

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Re: OpenGL manuals

I've updated my xorg server to release 7 and I miss my OpenGL manual pages!!!!
Please bring them back, they are invaluable for any GL developer.

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