Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
First of all, I don't think that Jpoe the Plumber should or will compile FlightGear him/herself. Anybody who wants to do so should learn how to do that. John Denker wrote: Another workaround -- the one I actually prefer -- is to let OSG live under .../lib64/ but add

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread John Denker
On 02/06/2010 02:32 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: As I see it this might actually be a problem for the Linux vendor. They should have added /usr/lib64 to /etc/ld.so.conf That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix the bug that I am reporting. ld.so.conf is meaningful at runtime. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: On 02/06/2010 02:32 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: As I see it this might actually be a problem for the Linux vendor. They should have added /usr/lib64 to /etc/ld.so.conf That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix the bug that I am reporting. The problem you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread John Denker
On 02/06/2010 08:06 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix the bug that I am reporting. The problem you reported is that the linker can't locate the library. If it's location is defined in ld.so.conf (and after running ldconfig) it can. No, that is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: No, that is not the bug I am reporting. Beware that the word linker is ambiguous. ld is different from ld.so. More precisely, /usr/bin/ld is different from /lib/libdl.so* ... different program, different purpose, different specifications. For example, I can change

[Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-05 Thread John Denker
Let summarize a few obvious points: 1) Everybody who is participating in this conversation is doing so in order to help ordinary non-expert users. None of use will directly benefit from any cleanup in the autoconfiguration scripts. Everybody on this list is an expert. We all figured out years

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-05 Thread Curtis Olson
This simply isn't the case as I have observed it. Everything compiles out of the box here. I have access to two 64 bit Linux machines. I run Fedora if that makes a difference. OSG, FlightGear, Simgear, plib go together without expert magic using the default configure paths. We could work to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-05 Thread John Denker
On 02/05/2010 06:43 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: This simply isn't the case as I have observed it. Everything compiles out of the box here. I have access to two 64 bit Linux machines. I run Fedora if that makes a difference. OSG, FlightGear, Simgear, plib go together without expert magic using