Bug 44313

Summary:	Blender does depend on glx, but it's not marked as a dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gustavo Ramos <eureko>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project <graphics+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gustavo Ramos 2004-03-10 19:33:03 UTC

Blender depends on glx, and trying to build blender on a system without glx fails, without trying to install it. i.e:

emerge -p blender does not say it needs glx

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Gustavo Ramos 2004-03-10 19:34:01 UTC

Sorry, forgot to mention the blender version:
blender-2.32

Comment 2 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2004-03-11 13:25:48 UTC

what you mean with glx?

Comment 3 Gustavo Ramos 2004-03-13 01:46:16 UTC

I was refering to the X glx extension.

Ok, I solved it. It was a configuration issue: In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config I uncommented the line

    Load "glx"

and all went fine. However, when compiling blender, the script should display a notice telling the user that the glx extension is needed for blender to run and should be installed *and* enabled :-)  Should this be filed as a new bug?

Comment 4 Denilson Sá Maia 2005-12-14 09:54:31 UTC

This is an old bug, I know, but just for your information, it is possible to run 
blender even without GLX extension. Just use "blender-static" binary from 
blender site. This binary has a software-based GLX statically linked, and should 
work on most systems.