On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've been trying to get a few recalcitrant packages to build > (evolution-data-server, openoffice) but they seem to require things > that my system does not have, and portage doesn't know this. > > So I'm trying revdep-rebuild, which also fails. In particular, > x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0 won't build because during configuration, it > lacks "GL library". I've been trying to use equery to figure out what > package owns some of the things in the /usr/include/GL directory, to > no avail. So here's the tail end of the revdep output, in hopes a > more experienced hand can help... > > > > checking for GL/glu.h... yes > checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no > checking for glVertex3d in -lGL... no > checking for glVertex3f in -lGL... no > checking for glVertex3i in -lGL... no > checking for glVertex3s in -lGL... no > checking for glVertex3d in -lMesaGL... no > configure: error: Cannot find GL library
install mesa. openoffice depends on virtual/glu which depends on mesa -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com