Re: [Plib-users] PLIB games

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Steve Wendt wrote:

> >This is something that someone else complained about - we kicked it around a bit
> >and I don't understand it.  None of my makefiles have
> $(top_srcdir)/../mkinstalldirs ?!?
> 
> It came from Makefile.in (for tux_aqfh).

But it doesn't...I just looked at that file and it says:

tuxaqfh/Makefile.in:

   mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs

In the tuxaqfh/src/Makefile.in, it actually says the same
thing - but in that case, $(top_srcdir) changes.

What's doubly weird is that this only happens to RedHat 7.x users.

> >> I also had to add -lglut to the makefiles for both games; I guess this is some
> >> error in the configure script?
> >
> >Again, I can't reproduce this.  Whatever I do, that's in the Makefile just as it
> >should be.
> 
> Hmmm... I'll download the latest versions, and check the configure output more
> carefully to see what is happening.
> 
> >I'm betting that your Linux distro has put GLUT somewhere strange.
> 
> Not the distro, I compile my own Mesa.  It goes to /usr/local/lib, but it does make
> links in /usr/lib (including for glut I think, but I'll have to check).

Ah!   Well, I bet you are either missing:

   /usr/include/GL/glut.h

...or

   /usr/lib/libglut.a  (or .so)

...if either of those are missing, the autodetect in the configure script will fail...
producing the effect you are seeing.  The locations I describe above are the "official"
ones according to the Linux OpenGL ABI standard.
 
> >What graphics hardware do you have?
> 
> Voodoo 2.  Some versions of Mesa break it from time to time.  I had to revert
> libGL for some things to work correctly, but GLU and glut seemed OK.
> Apparently, things aren't so good... I'll revert back to 3.4.2 and see if I do better
> with that.

Voodoo-2 is pretty old (and VERY strange) hardware.  It's *definitely* time to upgrade!
 
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