Re: [Mesa3d-users] Linking

[Stephen J B. <sj...@ht...>]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Filipe Bonjour wrote:

> Dear Steve and Mesa users,
> 
> > It's unfortunate that Mesa sometimes gets dumped into /usr/X11R6/lib,
> > instead of /usr/lib where is belongs.  The simplest, most pragmatic
> > solution is:
> 
> Wel, if you want to install it the wasy way like me, with RPMs,
> apparently you have to face the consequences!
> 
> In any case that wasn't the problem. The problem (thanks physic) was
> that the RPM didn't create a file libGL.so, but only files
> libGL.so.version (such as libGL.so.1.2.0). So I just created a link
> libGL.so to libGL.so.1.2.0 and it linked.
 
You'll find there are still some programs out there that won't link.


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