Bug 20979 – ati-drivers 2.9.8 fail while building

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ira Snyder 2003-05-13 19:46:17 UTC]

The ati-drivers, build 2.9.8, have failed building for me.  This started when I
moved from gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r3 to gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5.  Before
switching it was working fine.  I made sure that I compiled the kernel's with
exactly the same options.  I have been running XFree 4.3.0-r2 the whole time.

Steps to reproduce:
1) emerge ati-drivers

The error message that appears where it stops is:

 * building the fgl_glxgears sample
gcc -o fgl_glxgears -Wall -g -D USE_GLU -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lm fgl_glxgears.c
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
cannot find -lGL
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [fgl_glxgears] Error 1

!!! ERROR: media-video/ati-drivers-2.9.8 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 65, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

The other compiles above this work correctly.

Here is my uname -a output:
Linux palomino 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 #3 SMP Sun May 11 20:51:40 PDT 2003 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-05-14 02:15:54 UTC]

a libary with glide is missing

did you try
opengl-update ?

[Comment 2 Ira Snyder 2003-05-14 02:55:04 UTC]

Doing an opengl-update did the trick.

Steps I did:
1) opengl-update xfree
2) emerge ati-drivers

Now it built perfectly and it is working wonderfully.  Thank you very much!

[Comment 3 Luca Barbato 2003-05-14 11:30:39 UTC]

Could you tell me exactly what you were using before the kernel upgrade?

ati-drivers or xfree ?

[Comment 4 Ira Snyder 2003-05-14 20:07:05 UTC]

I was using the ati drivers before I upgraded.

I'm guessing that the kernel recompile got rid of the fglrx.o module, and that is why I had to recompile the drivers.

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-06-03 02:04:04 UTC]

matter of opengl-update.