12742 – /usr/lib/GL contains invalid symlink

Bug 12742 - /usr/lib/GL contains invalid symlink

Summary: /usr/lib/GL contains invalid symlink

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Highest normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2002-12-26 13:12 UTC by Philip Walls (RETIRED)
Modified:	2003-04-22 14:26 UTC (History)
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Description Philip Walls (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-26 13:12:19 UTC

This may be a result of installing the DRI cvs from dri.sourceforge.net,
But at some point in time, the following occured (presumably in order):

1) a new GL directory was created in place of my symlink from /usr/lib/GL to
/usr/X11R6/lib/GL
2) the following command was executed (pwd: /usr/lib/GL/) by an ebuild: ln -s
../X11R6/lib/GL /usr/lib/GL

Then when I was trying to compile programs that required OpenGL libraries they
would fail, for instance: cube, and ftpcube [wxgtk] (totally different programs)

I was able to solve the problem by performing the following:

__CUT__

rm -rf /usr/lib/GL
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/GL /usr/lib/

__CUT__


Can anyone else confirm having this problem?

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-12-26 16:38:13 UTC

what if you run `opengl-update xfree` ? 
or if you have nvidia video card, `opengl-update nvidia`

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-22 14:26:25 UTC

the opengl-update thing worked