Bug 246525

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-3.0.0 configure fails with "libGL not installed or functional"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Graham <gman>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Build log Emerge --info

Description Graham 2008-11-12 19:23:08 UTC

openoffice-3.0.0 does not get past the configure stage.  I have openGL installed correctly (AFAIK) but the configure fails thus:

...
checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking for main in -lGL... no
configure: error: libGL not installed or functional
make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
...

Can anyone tell me what it is checking for?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync
2. emerge -u openoffice

Actual Results:  
Configure fails before build starts

Expected Results:  
Compile openoffice

Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-13 06:00:32 UTC

Please post your 'emerge --info' output, and also output of 'eselect opengl list'

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-14 03:09:58 UTC

Also attach the config.log to this bug report.

Comment 3 Filip Pytloun 2008-12-02 21:31:17 UTC

Created attachment 174105 [details]
Build log

Log of building openoffice. Down you can see an error on which it failed.

Comment 4 Filip Pytloun 2008-12-02 21:31:59 UTC

Created attachment 174106 [details]
Emerge --info

Emerge informations

Comment 5 Filip Pytloun 2008-12-02 21:35:01 UTC

Hello,
I have the same problem, I get "configure: error: libGL not installed or functional" and fail.
I gave build.log and emerge --info to an attachments. Please have a look on it.
P.S.: Sorry if I did something wrong, I'm here for the first time.

Comment 6 Graham 2008-12-11 13:46:40 UTC

This seems to be related to nvidia's GLX implementation.  You can work around the problem by selecting the xorg opengl before compiling.  OpenOffice then compiles fine and you can change back to nvidia's opengl and it works fine.

So:

eselect opengl set xorg-x11
emerge -u openoffice
eselect opengl set nvidia

Comment 7 Harrison Metzger 2009-01-03 15:32:46 UTC

The workaround in #6 From Graham works for me. However, I won't be able to "go back" to nvidia because I'm using their beta drivers manually installed. Is this a problem with the nvidia drivers, or a problem with openoffice's ./configure?

Comment 8 Martin 2009-07-12 08:52:17 UTC

I had the same problem. #6 did not work for my situation. Probably a driver/driver building isue on my side. On my system I solved it with:

Shut X down, rmmod nvidia and run nvidia-uninstaller.
This will 'completely' remove the nvidia driver that came directly from the factory website.

Now emerge --sync and emerge nvidia-drivers and emerge nvidia-settings.
Check your xorg.conf you have: Load "glx"
Load the nvidia module and run: eselect opengl set nvidia

Now you can start X again and maybe your openoffice _will_ build.