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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:31:16
Message-Id: 9acccfe50908011631g1e7d2499j122752c089be4067@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
3 >> I've been trying to get a few recalcitrant packages to build
4 >> (evolution-data-server, openoffice) but they seem to require things
5 >> that my system does not have, and portage doesn't know this.
6 >>
7 >> So I'm trying revdep-rebuild, which also fails.  In particular,
8 >> x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0 won't build because during configuration, it
9 >> lacks "GL library".  I've been trying to use equery to figure out what
10 >> package owns some of the things in the /usr/include/GL directory, to
11 >> no avail.  So here's the tail end of the revdep output, in hopes a
12 >> more experienced hand can help...
13 >>
14 >>
15 >>
16 >> checking for GL/glu.h... yes
17 >> checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no
18 >> checking for glVertex3d in -lGL... no
19 >> checking for glVertex3f in -lGL... no
20 >> checking for glVertex3i in -lGL... no
21 >> checking for glVertex3s in -lGL... no
22 >> checking for glVertex3d in -lMesaGL... no
23 >> configure: error: Cannot find GL library
24 >
25 > install mesa.
26 >
27 > openoffice depends on virtual/glu which depends on mesa
28
29 According to eix, I've got the latest stable: media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1;
30 why would you think portage would not pull it in if I was emerging
31 openoffice?
32
33 ++ kevin
34
35
36 --
37 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>