Re: Mesa probs...


Subject: Re: Mesa probs...
From: Kevan Benson (kentrak@sonic.net)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 21:20:06 EET


Thanks.  I figured it could be done with symlinks, but didn't want to mess with it if there was another fix.  

BTW, it was the 4.0_PRE version, so that linking was probably it.

Again thanks.

-Kevan Benson
-Kentrak@sonic.net



On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Jari P Saukkonen wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Kevan Benson wrote:
> 
> > I tried using the linux binary, but it keeps complaining about not finding a shared library.  They problem is, when
> > using an RPM of Mesa (and Mesa devel, and demos, and glit, and glut devel), one or another file is missing that is
> > required.  when using the Redhat 6.0 RPMs (Mesa 3.0), libGL.so.1 is missing.  When I use the Freshmeat RPMs (Mesa 3.1)
> > libMesaGL.so.3 is missing.  Whe looking at the file lists of each RPM, I see that they each name the libraries
> > differently, resulting in this error.  Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this and if they have a solution
> > (compile Mesa?).  Don't want to compile if I don't have to, like the easy file management of RPM.
> 
> You didn't mention what version you tried. You can check the required
> libraries with command 'ldd majik'. As for 0.4.0pre, I noticed that while 
> packaging the files I accidentally linked it to libGL and libMesaGLU. You
> should be able to fix the problem by installing either mesa and making
> symlinks from libGL.so.3 to libMesaGL.so.3 and libGLU.so.3 to libMesaGLU
> (or vice versa). IIRC Mesa 3.1 uses  libGL(U) (no libMesaGLU) and Mesa 3.0
> uses libMesaGL (no libGL) so it doesn't work on either unless you have
> symlinks :).
> 
> ++ dazzt
> 
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