Below please find extracts from our communications with the originator of 599275 report: as you can see -- find_util does not find .so.1 if .so is not present... btw actually util seems not to be used (at least directly) in python-opengl
$> grep util /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/platform/glx.py import ctypes, ctypes.util ----- Forwarded message from Alexandre Delanoë <alexandre.dela...@telecom-paristech.fr> ----- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:00:34 +0200 From: Alexandre Delanoë <neonoe123...@gmail.com> To: Yaroslav Halchenko <y...@dartmouth.edu> # /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep 'libGL\.' libGL.so.1 (libc6, Système d'exploitation ABI : Linux 2.4.20) => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 # python -c 'from ctypes import util; print util.find_library("GL")' None # python -c 'from OpenGL.GL import *' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/GL/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from OpenGL.raw.GL import * File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/raw/GL/__init__.py", line 6, in <module> from OpenGL.raw.GL.constants import * File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/raw/GL/constants.py", line 7, in <module> from OpenGL import platform, arrays File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/platform/__init__.py", line 36, in <module> _load() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/platform/__init__.py", line 27, in _load plugin_class = plugin.load() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/plugins.py", line 14, in load return importByName( self.import_path ) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/plugins.py", line 28, in importByName module = __import__( ".".join(moduleName), {}, {}, moduleName) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/platform/glx.py", line 8, in <module> class GLXPlatform( baseplatform.BasePlatform ): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/OpenGL/platform/glx.py", line 20, in GLXPlatform raise ImportError("Unable to load OpenGL library", *err.args) ImportError: ('Unable to load OpenGL library', 'GL: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direc tory', 'GL', None) zsh: exit 1 python -c 'from OpenGL.GL import *' -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team