Re: [Plib-users] problem =?iso-8859-1?q?=28with_plib=29?= while installing =?iso-8859-1?q?SimGear=28FlightGear=29?=

[de S. <de...@es...>]

well i followed instructions from howtows to install glut and it works
pretty well (for ex, tuxracer works)... it is not the problem
the problem might be what wonders you !

(i did not find slackware rpms for glut)


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> 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
> 
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Ferréol de Soras