Mesa library
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LabVIEW is dynamically linked with the Mesa OpenGL-compatible*
3-D graphics library (libLVMesaGL.so.3), which must be installed on the
system in order to run the LabVIEW executable.  The library is installed
in /usr/local/lib by the labview-rte (run-time engine) rpm package.

The library filename is slightly renamed from the original Mesa library
name (libMesaGL.so.*) for the following reasons:

1) The Mesa library is included by some Linux distributions and not
 others.  The distributions which provide Mesa use different versions
 compiled with different options -- some include it as part of XFree86 4.0,
 others as a standalone package.  The library location and version numbering
 scheme has not been standardized across distributions.  For this reason,
 relying on distribution-provided Mesa libraries would have been
 very difficult to support.

2) By default Mesa allocates a large amount of memory for
 stencil buffers and accumulation buffers regardless of whether
 the application needs these features, and has a fairly large
 maximum render context size.  The LabVIEW version of Mesa
 has been compiled with a smaller render context and certain
 features disabled in order to use less memory.  In addition,
 Phong shading support has been added to the library.

In compliance with the GNU Library Public License (LGPL), the source
code to Mesa including these modifications, and the text of the
license,  are available on the LabVIEW 6i CD-ROM in the /redist/mesa-src
directory.  These files may be freely redistributed and modified
under the terms of this license.

* OpenGL(R) is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
