Bug 254580 – x11-drivers/ati-driver-8.501 will not successfully emerge even though it is unmasked for x86. /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237785
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matthew Barrett 2009-01-11 20:07:50 UTC]

The message "Building fgl_glxgears" is given and then immediately I receive the line which I put in the "Summary" box above.
Call stack:
           ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
         environment, line 3207:  Called die
The specific snippet of code: "$(tc-getCC)" -o fgl_glxgears ${CLFAGS} ${LDFLAGS}  -DUSE_GLU -I"${S}"/common/usr/include fgl_glxgears.c -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lm || die "fgl_glxgears build failed";

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I updated my computer for the first time in at least 4 months (no internet connection at all).
2.I upgraded from kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 to 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 .
3.The graphics driver for my ATI 2400Pro Series card was not loading so I attempted "emerge ati-drivers" which failed.  I unmerged the ati-drivers package while running each kernel and then attempted to emerge from scratch.  Now I am here.

Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
emerge failed.

revdep-rebuild returns the following executes "emerge --oneshot media-libs/freeglut:0" which fails:

ERROR: media-libs/freeglut-2.4.0-r1 failed.
Call stack:
          ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
        environment, line 2663:  Called die
The specific snippet of code: emake || die "emake failed"

I have no functioning graphics driver and the program 'links' is ... new for me.  Please feel free to request more informaiton.  :)   Thank you.

[Comment 1 Matthew Barrett 2009-01-18 22:57:03 UTC]

rm /usr/lib/libGL.so
emerge --unmerge mesa
emerge mesa mesa-progs
revdep-rebuild


This fixed the problem.
See comments posted for Bug # 237785.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 237785 ***