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 19:18:49 +0300
> To: pli...@li...
> From: de...@es... (Ferréol de SORAS)
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] problem    (with plib) while installing
> SimGear(FlightGear)
>
> well in fact i compiled plib with
>
> "./configure --with-GL=/usr/src/glut-3.7" so that plib found my opengl
> directory because it dit not find it by default

Didn't you say that you do not know linux very well ? Then PLEASE, PLEASE
do not try to compile Mesa or GLUT yourself. Use the appropiate packages
supplied with your distribution (there are some, really).

Being a non-experienced user, you risk messing up your system otherwise.
Even as an experienced user, you mess up your systems package handling
unless you tell the RPM (I assume that your distribution is RPM-based)
database about what you installed in some way.

I bet if you had used the packages that came with your linux distribution,
SimGear had ./configure'd flawlessly. The best thing is if you try to
remove the libraries and header files you installed manually from your
system (if you know approximately when you did the install, find -cmin
helps - see "man find" for details) and install the corresponding RPM
packages afterwards.


> after you told me to look at the log, i remarked there was a problem
> with glut and i tried to configure simgear unsuccessfully with the
> same argument, but it did not work
>
> i'll try to copy my gl files in several directories untill it works
> :-)
>  (or link the dir)

No, please also don't do that.


> the stupid fact is the configure script which says there is a problem
> with plib whereas it is with gl dir.....

Well - the configure program tries to compile a simple program that
includes pu.h. If the compilation process failes, then this does not
necessarily mean that the pu.h header file is missing or that something is
wrong with it - it could also be any of the header files included by it
directly or indirectly.

What wonders *me* is that when the Simgear configure script checks for
GLUT, no error ocourrs, while the compiler obviously cannot find the GLUT
header fine when checking for pu.h.


- Sebastian