Re: [Plib-users] problem (with plib) while installing SimGear(FlightGear)

[Sebastian U. <ud...@ha...>]

On Thu, 06 Jun 2002, de...@es... (Ferréol de SORAS) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:44:50 +0300
> To: pli...@li...
> From: de...@es... (Ferréol de SORAS)
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] problem   (with plib) while installing
> SimGear(FlightGear)

[...]

> please find the configure log just following (the last 50 lines)

[...]

> configure:3634: checking for plib/pu.h
> configure:3644: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> In file included from configure:3640:
> /usr/local/include/plib/pu.h:48: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 3639 "configure"

See the third last line. The GLUT header file is obviously missing on your
system or the compiler cannot find it.

If you compiled PLIB from source before, than I doubt that the file is
actually missing, since if it would have been at that time, you surely
wouldn't have been able to compile PLIB.

Try the following:

find / -name "glut.h"

(in case you do that as non-root, ignore the warnings about the directories
that find was unable to process due to their permission bits. System-wide
installed header files usually don't reside in these directories.)

If the file shows up either in /usr/include/GL/, /usr/local/include/GL/ or
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/, then everything should be fine (well, in the last
case Steve might argue that things are not fine - but as I can see from the
gcc commandline in the logs, /usr/X11R6/include/ is added to the
searchpatch, so there is no need for you to care about this issue for
now.).

In case the file doesn't show up at all, you've got a problem. However,
before trying to compile and install GLUT manually, *PLEASE* grab your
distribution's CD and locate the package(s) containing the GLUT library and
header file. Then, try to install these again.


- Sebastian