86896 – symlink libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 missing

Bug 86896 - symlink libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 missing

Summary: symlink libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 missing

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-03-27 13:33 UTC by helge preuss
Modified:	2005-03-27 14:15 UTC (History)
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Description helge preuss 2005-03-27 13:33:53 UTC

Actually, there should be a symlink /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1
There isn't, so all applications linking against libGL.so bail out of the build process with an error message of e.g.

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This bug seems to be different from 85950, as it does not concern emulation libraries on AMD 64, but the system library.

Comment 1 helge preuss 2005-03-27 13:36:06 UTC

This is easy to fix on a running system with
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so

I use Software GL (MesaGL), I don't know if that's significant...

Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-27 14:15:40 UTC

don't symlink, use opengl-update