Re: [Mesa3d-users] mesa instalation issues

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Entelin Hightree wrote:
> 
> when doing a ./configure --prefix=/usr
> I get this error.
> 
> checking for sys/shm.h... yes
> checking for g++... yes
> checking which GLU to build (SGI requires a C++ compiler)... SGI
> checking for GL/glut.h... no
> checking whether to use an external (=already-installed) GLUT... no
> checking for GLUT source dir in '.' ... configure: error: GLUT sources
> missing; that is not supported at this point.
> 
> so I figgured I needed to install GLUT... downloaded the glut-3.7.tar.gz and
> followed its instructions. however durring the "make" I get this error..
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/lib/glut-3.7/test/glut'
> rm -f test1
> gcc -o test1 -O2 -fno-strength-reduce      -L/usr/X11R6/lib test1.o
> ../../lib/glut/libglut.so ../../../lib/libMesaGLU.so
> ../../../lib/libMesaGL.so -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lXi -lXext
> -lX11 -lm
> gcc: ../../../lib/libMesaGLU.so: No such file or directory
> gcc: ../../../lib/libMesaGL.so: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [test1] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lib/glut-3.7/test/glut'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lib/glut-3.7/test'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> so.. glut needs mesa and mesa need glut, I am a bit confused now :|
> I read all the documentation that I could find but with no success.

If you also download the MesaDemos*.tar.gz archive you'll get GLUT
and your build problem should go away.

-Brian