[GRASSLIST:3302] Re: regarding configure Problem with glBegin and Mesa

[Hamish]

> I emailed the list about a problem with the configure script for
> 5.0.3. I have the latest Mesa library(6.0 something) and when I run
> the configure script I get the message that it can't find the openGL
> library. In particular, it can't find glBegin.  I checked libGL.so.1
> and it does have glBegin (using nm -d the/library | grep glBegin). I
> took Glynn's advice and looked at the config.log and this is what the
> last couple of lines were:
>  
> configure:9400: gcc -E  -I/usr/X11R6/include/  conftest.c >/dev/null
> 2>conftest.out configure:9392: checking for GL/glu.h
[...]
> configure:9497: checking for glBegin in -lGL
> configure:9514: gcc -o conftest -g -O2    -L/usr/lib  conftest.c -lGL 
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -lSM -lICE -lX11  -lm -lpthread  1>&5/usr/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lGL collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[...]
> 
> I don't understand what  is the problem accept that the configure
> script isn't finding the libGL.so.1.  Does "confdefs.h" have anything
> to do with my problem or is the latest Mesa library too new?  Should I
> go for an older version of Mesa?

[Debian 3.0 (Woody)]


$ apt-file search libGL.so.1
mesag3: usr/lib/libGL.so.1
mesag3: usr/lib/libGL.so.1.4.500
mesag3+ggi: usr/lib/libGL.so.1
mesag3+ggi: usr/lib/libGL.so.1.4.500
mesag3-glide2: usr/lib/libGL.so.1
mesag3-glide2: usr/lib/libGL.so.1.4.500
nvidia-glx: usr/lib/libGL.so.1
nvidia-glx: usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5336
nvidia-glx: usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.0.5336
xlibmesa-gl: usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
xlibmesa-gl: usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
xlibmesa-gl: usr/lib/libGL.so.1
xlibmesa-gl: usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
xlibmesa-gl-dbg: usr/X11R6/lib/debug/libGL.so.1
xlibmesa-gl-dbg: usr/X11R6/lib/debug/libGL.so.1.2
xlibmesa-gl-dbg: usr/lib/debug/libGL.so.1
xlibmesa-gl-dbg: usr/lib/debug/libGL.so.1.2



Install the xlibmesa-gl-dev and xlibmesa-glu-dev debian packages and
then it should work.


Hamish