Bug 261498 – app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.6-r1 uses absolute paths in symlinks which makes for cross compile angry

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alon Bar-Lev 2009-03-06 21:20:58 UTC]

Hello,

For example:
# ls -la /usr/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib/libGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2009-03-06 23:14 /usr/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib/libGL.so -> /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so

This fails packages that would like to be linked with libGL.so as it actually points to the host's version.

The best solution is to use relative symbolic links, for example:
/usr/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib/libGL.so -> opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so

This will enable cross compile X and other opengl depended packages.

Thanks!

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-03-06 22:38:26 UTC]

Reassigning to x11-drivers herd.

[Comment 2 Sven 'sleipnir' Rebhan 2009-06-18 20:08:20 UTC]

Created attachment 195113 [details, diff]
Relative path fix for libGL*

This patch creates a relative link to the libs iff PREFIX=DST_PREFIX which is the default. In case a user specifies something different, an absolute path is used instead. The handling of the header files is not touched (yet).

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2009-06-19 10:56:23 UTC]

patch looks fine to me, but i only made a passing glance at it ...

[Comment 4 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-06-23 14:25:31 UTC]

1.0.7 added to the main tree with this applied :]
I've tested all 3 implementations (nvidia,ati,xorg) everything worked fine.