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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:30:02
Message-Id: 200908012328.36643.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
2 > I've been trying to get a few recalcitrant packages to build
3 > (evolution-data-server, openoffice) but they seem to require things
4 > that my system does not have, and portage doesn't know this.
5 >
6 > So I'm trying revdep-rebuild, which also fails. In particular,
7 > x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0 won't build because during configuration, it
8 > lacks "GL library". I've been trying to use equery to figure out what
9 > package owns some of the things in the /usr/include/GL directory, to
10 > no avail. So here's the tail end of the revdep output, in hopes a
11 > more experienced hand can help...
12 >
13 >
14 >
15 > checking for GL/glu.h... yes
16 > checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no
17 > checking for glVertex3d in -lGL... no
18 > checking for glVertex3f in -lGL... no
19 > checking for glVertex3i in -lGL... no
20 > checking for glVertex3s in -lGL... no
21 > checking for glVertex3d in -lMesaGL... no
22 > configure: error: Cannot find GL library
23
24 install mesa.
25
26 openoffice depends on virtual/glu which depends on mesa
27
28 --
29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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