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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:10:44
Message-Id: 43C11C3B.2000601@planet.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error) by Marco Calviani
1 Marco Calviani schreef:
2 > During compiling i'm getting an libGL.la error:
3 >
4 > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive
5 >
6
7 *Normally*, I would say that *whenever* you see the error "<blah> is not a
8 valid libtool archive", the first thing to do is run
9
10 # fix_libtool_files.sh (located in your /sbin folder)
11
12 Then try your emerge again-- *BUT* /this/
13
14 > The libGL.la driver that is given by the ati drivers is empty
15 > (/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la)
16
17 gives me pause, especially since my folder looks like this
18
19 la /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/
20 totaal 761K
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 756 jan 07 2006 02:30 libGL.la
22 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 jan 07 2006 02:30 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2
23 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 jan 07 2006 02:30 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 756K jan 07 2006 02:30 libGL.so.1.2
25
26 and yours apparently does not.
27
28 Do the drivers actually work on your machine under other circumstances?
29
30 I would tend to suspect they aren't correctly installed.
31
32 Did you install them from Portage, with the "opengl" USE flag enabled?
33
34 HTH,
35 Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error) Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com>