[Plib-users] RE: ./configure Open GL problems

[McEvoy, N. (Contractor) <nic...@ds...>]

keerti kiran bhamidipati wrote:
>I've been trying to get pLib 1.6 to compile on my Rehat9 w/ GeForce 4 box.
>I installed the nVidia drivers from the website, which installs the OpenGL
>libraries as well.  I have compiled and installed freeglut 2.0.0 without
>any problems (it found and linked to the OpenGL libraries without any
>problems).  I don't know what I'm doing wrong with plib. When I run
>./configure, it fails saying:
>...
><cut>
>configure:2596: checking for glNewList in -lGL
>configure:2615: gcc -o conftest -g -O2    -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c -lGL
>-lSM -lICE -lXi -lXmu -lXext -lX11  -lm 1>&5
>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glthread.o)(.text+0x28): In function
>`_glthread_InitTSD':: undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glthread.o)(.text+0x83): In function
>`_glthread_GetTSD':
>: undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glthread.o)(.text+0xc5): In function
>`_glthread_SetTSD':
>: undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>configure: failed program was:
>#line 2604 "configure"
>#include "confdefs.h"
><cut>

This is a known configure script bug (which has been fixed in the latest cvs).

See this thread on how to manually fix it on your system:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2413992

It worked for me !  :)

Nick