On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:27:47PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Hi, brand new system I am trying to install. > > emerge gets to xorg-server-1.7.3.901-r1 and dies with the message that > the config script cannot find package gl. And it is true, if I issue > > pkg-config --libs gl > > I get, instead of the expected -IGL > > Package gl was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gl.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'gl' found > > Any hints to what package I may be missing, and/or what directory it > should be in? >
Oops, I just remembered that I can just look on my other gentoo server to find where gl is.... and this brings up a new problem! gl.pc is located in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gl.pc equery belongs tells me that it belongs to mesa. BUT, xorg-server-1.7.3.901-r1 has mesa as a PDEPEND, and mesa-7.7 has xorg-server as a RDEPEND, which is included in DEPEND, so how the heck am I supposed to get X working on my laptop? W -- It is said that papers in string theory are published at a rate greater than the speed of light. This, however, is not problematic since no information is being transmitted. ~Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hagen Michael Kleinert Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1115 days, 16:21