Bug 18952

Summary: GL/glut.h cannot be safely used from C++
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Daniel Thompson <d.thompson>
Component: MesaAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Daniel Thompson 2000-10-12 12:30:58 UTC 
stdlib.h contains a prototype for the exit() function. If included from C++
this prototype defines exceptions that can be thrown by exit.

GL/glut.h also prototypes exit() (together with reams of comments
explaining why they had to do such a stupid thing). This is quite safe from
C as stdlib.h contains a normal prototype. Sadly for C++ the prototypes
conflict and gcc generates an error.

Compiling tuxracer (0.60.1) will demonstate this problem should
reproduction prove difficult. I worked around by removing the prototype
from glut.h but obviously this may impact other areas.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-12 12:52:34 UTC 
We've noticed (and fixed) this a couple of days ago; it's fixed in 3.3-7.
Until the package appears in Rawhide, you can download it at
http://www.linux-easy.com/rh-updates/