Bug#664548: ogre: unsatisfiable build-dependency on kfreebsd

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 20:40:56 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:

> Hello Julien,
> 
> 2012/3/18 Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>:
> > Source: ogre
> > Version: 1.7.4-3
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> >
> > ogre recently added a build-dep on libois-dev, but that's not available
> > on kfreebsd.
> 
> This is because I enabled the samples, and samples need to use OIS
> (formerly part of OGRE) for getting their input.
> 
> OGRE itself will certainly compile and maybe work on FreeBSD,
> althought doing heavy usage of OpenGL, I don't know if in FreeBSD and
> Hurd running OGRE applications is a good idea at all.
> 
> But apart from the samples, probably almost every project using Ogre
> relies on OIS for input, so I don't think that getting it to compile
> on freebsd/hurd flavours without OIS will be of any benefit in the
> real world.
> 
> What do you recommend?
> 
I don't know the software, so I really don't have a recommendation.  All
I know is either ogre builds again on kfreebsd or you need to arrange
for it (and its reverse dependencies) to be removed from there.

Cheers,
Julien
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