Bug 16912 – Xforms 1.0 library will not compile.

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Will Lepofsky 2003-03-05 14:34:25 UTC]

When trying to emerge the xforms library I receive the following error:

rm -f libformsGL.so.1.0~
+ cd .
+ gcc -o ./libformsGL.so.1.0~ -shared -Wl,-soname,libformsGL.so.1 glcanvas.o
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -L/usr/local/lib -L../lib -lforms -lGL -lc
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
cannot find -lGL
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
+ rm -f libformsGL.so.1
+ ln -s libformsGL.so.1.0 libformsGL.so.1
+ true
rm -f libformsGL.so.1.0
mv -f libformsGL.so.1.0~ libformsGL.so.1.0
mv: cannot stat `libformsGL.so.1.0~': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [libformsGL.so.1.0] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xforms-1.0/work/xforms-1.0-release/gl'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: x11-libs/xforms-1.0 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 39, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

I have tried changing my compiler flags, but it does not make a differance.  It
seems to me that the file it is trying to move is removed before the operation
occurs.

I almost forgot, the system is 1.4_rc3.  This was not listed in the drop down
list for version.

Also, I am new to Gentoo.  So, if I have placed this in the wrong area, please
forgive me.

[Comment 1 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2003-03-08 12:08:40 UTC]

hi i can't reproduce this immediately, but can you attach the output of "emerge info".

[Comment 2 Will Lepofsky 2003-03-10 11:21:08 UTC]

Here it is :

Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-xfs_pre6-2 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Lin
ux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi
g /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/jakarta/tomcat/c
onf"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mpeg oggvorbis pdflib 
png quicktime sdl spell xmms gdbm slang readline java X gpm tcpd pam libwww perl
 python imlib gtk qt motif opengl mozilla -3dnow -apm -arts -esd -gnome -kde -po
stgres acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb dga dvd cdr gd imap innodb junit lcms ldap m
aildir mmx mysql ncurses nls oci8 odbc pcmcia plotutils pnp samba sasl snmp sse 
ssl svga tcltk truetype trusted xml xml2 xv zlib"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~arch ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

If you need anything else, just let me know.

Will

[Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2003-11-26 11:10:48 UTC]

what version of xfree86 to you have installed. i searched around for libGL and it appears to be part of xfree86 4.3

[Comment 4 Will Lepofsky 2004-02-24 16:20:55 UTC]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this.

Anyway, I performed an emerge world -e.  Once I did this, the problems with emerging xforms went away.