For the seventh time I am attempting to install a program from source, this time on my Fedora 16 x86_64 laptop. The previous six failed, and so far this one is also going down in flames. However, I have not given up and I even think I see what is wrong.
The program is Sleepyhead. I have instructions which a helpful fellow is writing for Ubuntu users*, which I am occasionally translating for the RPM world. I used git to collect the source and put it in ~/sleepyhead-code. Then I installed (per the instructions) qt-devel, qtwebkit-devel and gcc-c++ which, it turns out, were already installed with the latest versions. Then I ran qmake-qt4, which also exited without error. But when I then ran make -j2 I got a list of errors, some of which are: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libnvidia-tls.so.260.19.21, needed by /usr/lib64/libGL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libnvidia-glcore.so.260.19.21, needed by /usr/lib64/libGL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv007tls' /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv013glcore' /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv014glcore' followed by another 18 lines like the last three. Now, this computer started with only the nv driver when I originally installed Fedora 11. During dist-upgrades the nv driver changed to the nouveau driver. Later I installed (and still use) the nVidia proprietary driver. At one time I tried going back to the nouveau driver, but discovered that the proprietary driver had done some weird things with links that I have been unable to undo. I gave up and just continue to use the proprietary driver. So I think the above error messages are related to that issue. Unfortunately, my understanding of links is that 1) Linux people love them and, 2) they are some kind of pointer and, 3) there are different kinds. That's all I know. I could Google, and I don't mind learning more about links, but I bet I still won't be able to fix the above errors. I could use some pointers and suggestions for where to start. * In fact, he is a member of a sleep apnea forum and is attempting to create a way for Mac and Windows users to install the latest version from source into Ubuntu running under Virtualbox on their Mac or Windows machines. The first parts of his instructions detailed installing Virtualbox on their Mac or Windows computer and then installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but I skipped over those parts. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
