[Plib-users] ./configure opengl problem

[McEvoy, N. <nic...@ds...>]

Ok so I decided to make the big switch from Windoze to Linux !  Its been something I've been wanting to do for ages ... so I decided to go with RedHat 8.0 ... well just because ... lets not get into a big discussion about this eh ! :)

Now that I've made the switch I want to get back into my games development hobby with plib & ode.

But I've hit a problem (already) trying to build plib-1.6.0 !

I have installed required software eg. opengl & glut3.7 ... but ./configure says "configure: error: could not find working GL library" ... whats going on ?

(nb. I installed XFree86-devel ... the RPM says it provides Mesa-devel ... I seem to have all the right libraries)

----- my error  -----
./configure --with-GL=/usr
<...snip...>
checking for glNewList in -lGL... no
checking for glNewList in -lMesaGL... no
configure: error: could not find working GL library

----- config.log (lots cut out) -----
<...snip...>
configure:2596: checking for glNewList in -lGL
configure:2615: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -I/usr/include  -L/usr/lib  -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c -lGL    -lSM -lICE -lXi -lXmu -lXext -lX11  -lm 1>&5
cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory "/usr/include"
cc1: warning:   as it has already been specified as a non-system directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glthread.o): In function `_glthread_InitTSD':
glthread.o(.text+0x28): undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glthread.o): In function `_glthread_GetTSD':
glthread.o(.text+0x83): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glthread.o): In function `_glthread_SetTSD':
glthread.o(.text+0xc5): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 2604 "configure"
<...snip...>
configure:2644: checking for glNewList in -lMesaGL
configure:2663: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -I/usr/include  -L/usr/lib  -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c -lMesaGL    -lSM -lICE -lXi -lXmu -lXext -lX11  -lm 1>&5
cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory "/usr/include"
cc1: warning:   as it has already been specified as a non-system directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lMesaGL
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 2652 "configure"
<...snip...>
--------------------

I have the following:

/usr/include/GL/glext.h
/usr/include/GL/gl.h
/usr/include/GL/glu.h
/usr/include/GL/GLwDrawA.h
/usr/include/GL/GLwDrawAP.h
/usr/include/GL/GLwMDrawA.h
/usr/include/GL/GLwMDrawAP.h
/usr/include/GL/glx.h
/usr/include/GL/glxint.h
/usr/include/GL/glxmd.h
/usr/include/GL/glxproto.h
/usr/include/GL/glxtokens.h
/usr/include/GL/osmesa.h

/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.3123
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.3123
/usr/lib/libGLU.so
/usr/lib/libGLU.so.1
/usr/lib/libglut.so.3

Any ideas ?

Nick