Bug 73811 – opengl-update nvidia needs to be executed repeatedly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Carsten Milkau 2004-12-08 08:22:17 UTC]

I have to execute 

# opengl-update nvidia

each time before I merge a package that links to libGL. Otherwise I get "undefined reference" failures [linkerror].
This is weird, I cannot resolve what the reason is. I even cannot clearly address the problem to a specifig tool, it may be caused by opengl-update, nvidia-glx, libtool, compiler or other issues. I don't know what to do.

However, this is not too big a problem since running opengl-update again and again is tedious but an acceptable work-around.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Carsten Milkau 2004-12-08 08:24:40 UTC]

Created attachment 45535 [details]
linker errors

[Comment 2 Carsten Milkau 2004-12-08 08:26:44 UTC]

Created attachment 45536 [details]
output of #emerge info

[Comment 3 Carsten Milkau 2004-12-08 08:30:01 UTC]

Some version numbers:

[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3  -build -debug (-selinux) 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.8.1-r1 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6111  -multilib 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3  0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.9  -build -doc 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7  (-uclibc) 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1  +X -bootstrap -build -debug +fortran* -gcj -hardened -multilib +nls -objc -pic -static (-uclibc) 0 kB

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-12-08 15:58:46 UTC]

try this:
ls /usr/lib/lib*GL* -al

and post the output

[Comment 5 Carsten Milkau 2004-12-09 08:02:00 UTC]

Created attachment 45610 [details]
/usr/lib/lib*GL*

I added destinations of symbolic links.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-12-09 08:09:12 UTC]

just wanted to verify it wasnt an old bug that used to come up

[Comment 7 Andrew Bevitt 2004-12-09 19:19:36 UTC]

Can you make sure that you only have one nvidia-glx installed..

Basically, emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx

make sure there is nothing left in /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia
and that /lib/modules/`uname -r`/video/nvidia.ko is gone.

opengl-update xorg-x11 
emerge nvidia-glx

if the error persists, can you next time, before running opengl-update nvidia check the output SpanKY asked for above, and comfirm that its the same or different.

[Comment 8 Carsten Milkau 2004-12-10 05:43:09 UTC]

I cannot opengl-update xorg-x11, since I still have xfree86 as X11 server. I will try this using "opengl-update xfree"

[Comment 9 Andrew Bevitt 2004-12-10 12:17:11 UTC]

Please consider migrating, however my questions still stand even with using the xfree profile.

[Comment 10 Carsten Milkau 2004-12-16 05:59:11 UTC]

This will still need some time since I won't have access to the corresponding machine during holidays, sorry.

[Comment 11 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-01-22 03:02:58 UTC]

can you please provice feedback.

[Comment 12 Fernando Serboncini (RETIRED) 2005-01-22 15:27:34 UTC]

I had the same problem and comment #7's instructions appear to have solved it.

[Comment 13 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-01-24 17:15:58 UTC]

ok.  I'm going to mark this fixed.  If anyone else has problems, please try opengl-update-2.1_pre1 or later 

[Comment 14 Carsten Milkau 2005-02-22 10:19:19 UTC]

I followed the instructions, now I get the errors always, reexecuting opengl-update doesn't help anymore

/usr/lib/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001152gl' 
(and lots of similar messages)

Why isn't this /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGl.so ?

[Comment 15 Carsten Milkau 2005-03-06 09:56:46 UTC]

Created attachment 52797 [details]
`ls /usr/lib/lib*GL* -al`

I removed an outdated file (/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.4.4496), repeated the
instructions and it works now. I put on the out put of `ls /usr/lib/lib*GL*
-al` anyway, since the link usr/lib/libGL.a ->
/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.a appears somewhat odd to me. There is no 
/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.a. I think it would be a good idea to remove
the link to avoid confusing configure scripts? If so, I am going to remove it.

[Comment 16 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-03-10 06:10:16 UTC]

Resolving fixed.  Thanks.