Bug 86896

Summary:	symlink libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 missing
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	helge preuss <scout>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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