Segfault on shutdown if glutMainLoop not called (fglrx)

[Richard Bruce Baxter]

Freeglut will segfault when exiting the application if glutMainLoop is not called (with the fglrx video drivers). A patch has been posted on Sourceforge;
https://sourceforge.net/p/freeglut/bugs/206
https://sourceforge.net/p/freeglut/code/1640

Here is a modified version of the patch for Ubuntu 14.04 (freeglut3_2.8.1-1_amd64.deb/freeglut3-dev_2.8.1-1_amd64.deb) based on Bruce Merry's fix.

A method to build a custom version of the freeglut3 package on Ubuntu 14.04;

sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev [this should install all necessary dependencies for freeglut]
sudo apt-get remove freeglut3 freeglut3-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential [in order to compile your own programs in Ubuntu] [+ bison debuild(?)]
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev autoconf automake libtool dh-autoreconf [install all build dependencies for freeglut]
mkdir ~/freeglut3-development
cd ~/freeglut3-development
manually download freeglut_2.8.1.orig.tar.gz from http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/freeglut
manually download freeglut_2.8.1-1.debian.tar.gz from http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/freeglut
manually download freeglut_2.8.1-1.dsc from http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/freeglut
dpkg-source -x freeglut_2.8.1-1.dsc [this will create folder freeglut-2.8.1 with a debian subfolder]
rm freeglut_2.8.1-1.debian.tar.gz
rm freeglut_2.8.1-1.dsc

[Ensure patch has been created; see "Record of freeglut_2.8.1-FREEGLUT_SOURCEFORGE_BUG206_PATCH.patch patch creation" below]
cp freeglut_2.8.1-FREEGLUT_SOURCEFORGE_BUG206_PATCH.patch freeglut-2.8.1/debian/patches/
nedit freeglut-2.8.1/debian/patches/series
  add reference to freeglut_2.8.1-FREEGLUT_SOURCEFORGE_BUG206_PATCH.patch
cd freeglut-2.8.1
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i freeglut3_2.8.1-1_amd64.deb freeglut3-dev_2.8.1-1_amd64.deb

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Record of freeglut_2.8.1-FREEGLUT_SOURCEFORGE_BUG206_PATCH.patch patch creation;

cd ~/freeglut3-development/virtualPatchCreationFolder/
mkdir a
mkdir b
mkdir a/src
mkdir b/src
cp orig/freeglut_init.c a/src/
cp patched/freeglut_init.c b/src/
diff -urNad a/src b/src > freeglut_2.8.1-FREEGLUT_SOURCEFORGE_BUG206_PATCH.patch

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