I can mention this to the CMake guys and see what they think. We just fixed a similar problem with finding libGL on HP-UX where it could be in usr/lib/hpux64 or usr/lib/hpux32.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Graham Macpherson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I had an OpenGL related problem building ParaView 3.5 and 3.6. I'm running > OpenSUSE 11.1, 2.6.27.23-0.1, x86_64, with NVIDIA version 185.18.14 drivers > and OpenGL which came from NVIDIA's repository, i.e. here > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/x86_64/ > > When it was linking some executables I got a load of errors of the likes > of: > > Linking CXX executable ../../../../bin/ImagingCxxTests > /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001622gl' > /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001299gl' > /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001491gl' > ... > etc > > The problem comes from the fact that /usr/lib64/libGL.so doesn't seem to be > the correct location for the proper libGL.so, at least on OpenSUSE 11.1 > with > NVIDIA drivers. If I run > > ldd /usr/bin/* | grep libGL.so > > or > > ldd /usr/lib64/* | grep libGL.so > > then every system executable and library calling libGL.so is calling it > from > this location: > > libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.1 > > rather than > > /usr/lib64/libGL.so > > where CMake is looking for it. In the past, I think the packages of > drivers > were creating a copy of libGL.so in /usr/lib64 (for example I have > /usr/lib64/libGL.so.180.44 from previous drivers, which was soft-linked to > /usr/lib64/libGL.so) so it was OK to link to it, but they seem to have > stopped > doing that in the most recent version, as that's apparently not where the > OS > is going to look for it. > > The reason I had linking problems is that I had the old version of libGL.so > still lurking in /usr/lib64/, so it was linking against the wrong version. > If > I manually create soft-links in /usr/lib64 to point to the correct > libraries > in /usr/X11R6/lib64/ then ParaView builds fine. > > I could suggest that the CMake looks in /usr/X11R6/lib64 in preference to > /usr/lib64, but I don't know if this is a portable, general solution. > > Regards, > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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