Bug 8829 – Common ebuild problem, XFree/ libGLU

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Phil Crosby 2002-10-06 22:01:28 UTC]

This bug appears when trying to compile XFree (all versions in 1.4rc1) and concerns 
libGLU.so.

The build error I speak of has been reported here: 
1) 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=11028&highlight=libglu+error
2) 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14811&highlight=x11+emerge+error
3) 
http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-August/029655.html

And also, by 
me, in another separate post located 
here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=99489#99489

When compiling 
Xfree86 (emerge xfree) 4.2.0-r12 (as well as all other versions of xfree included in 1.4rc1), I 
(and a few others) get the following error: 

../../exports/lib/libGLU.so: undefined 
reference to '__cxa_pure_virtual@CXXABI_1.2' 
../../exports/lib/libGLU.so: undefined 
reference to 'operator new[] (unsigned)@GLIBCPP_3.2' 
../../exports/lib/libGLU.so: 
undefined reference to 'operator delete(void*)@GLIBCPP_3.2 

... 

!!! ERROR: The 
ebuild did not complete successfully. 
!!! Function src_install, Line 7, Exitcode 2 
!!! (no 
error message) 

The error message varies slightly with each version of Xfree trying to be 
compiled (such as error on line 8 instead of line 7) but all have a problem with libGLU.

URL #2 up 
there has my exact error; I've achieved this error every single time, and I've done a lot of things 
beforehand to try and correct it so as to not bother anyone, but so far I haven't been able to fix it =( 
I've installed my gentoo system from the 1.4rc1 boot CD (this is my first gentoo system) and I need 
this build to set up a gnome desktop. I emerged xfree a few times to no avail, and thought it might be 
my compiler settings. I modified them to very conservative (the defaults; "-march=athlon- tbird -
O3 -pipe", which didn't help. 

I also added "-acl" (removing ACL support) to my USE variable, and 
emerged fileUtils, as suggested in url #2 up there, but that unfortunatley didn't help. I emerged 
glibc on it's own, and it installed fine. In the error message output by xfree (above), it say's its 
missing things in glibcpp_3.2

I've heard talk that libGLU might be using C++ headers or 
something, even though it is C, but I don't know much about that library or what's going on with its 
compilation. I've emerged xfree numerous times, each taking quite a long time, and am now willing 
to take apart an ebuild and patch it if neccessary; anything to get it up and running really. 


I've also emerge sync 'ed, which gives me ebuilds from Oct5 (today I tried to compile on Oct6, 
to no avail) so I'm assuming this bug isn't well known, as the newer builds are released and this 
issue isn't mentioned/resolved.

Thanks for reading, thanks even more if you have help; any 
help would be appreciated.

[Comment 1 Phil Crosby 2002-10-08 02:24:52 UTC]

I have discovered a solution thanks to the help of rac in the gentoo/portage forum.

THe 
problem was that my default GCC 3.2 install (and other's as well) was missing libstdc++.so.5, 
which was causing the undefined references when compiling xfree. Remerging GCC fixed 
it.

This install (installed from the 1.4rc1 CD's, after emerge syncing) apparently 
installed successfully, but left out that important library. The man command did not function 
correctly because of the absence of this library, which led me to ask about it and reemerge 
gcc.

Remerging gcc fixed the problem. Perhaps my original install was a gcc3.2_pre* 
version; whatever it was, the newest gcc from the portage tree fixed the above problem.