Hello

I am trying to install evas-1.0.0_pre13 (from enlightenment 0.17) in my system at work. However in this machine i am a simple user (no root access).

I usually install all programs from source with

./configure --prefix=/home/myuser/usr
make
make install

However while I was trying to install evas-1.0.0 I got:

libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../..//libGL.la' is not a valid ibtool archive

Which after some searching I found out that is an nvidia bug in the libGL.la and I need to edit that file and add the word "libtool" to the second line:

These are the 2 first lines of libGL.la:

# libGL.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by nvidia-installer: 1.0.5

And they need to read:

# libGL.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by nvidia-installer: 1.0.5 (for use by libtool)

As stated at:
www dot nvnews dot net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-23019.html

(And they say linux is not obscure...)

Anyhow. My problem is that I am not root so I cannot change the file.

Is there any way that I can tell make to use my own copy of ligGL.la that I copied in my own directory?

I tried:

make -I=/home/myuser/libGL.la

but it did not work

Any other ideas?

Thanks

Leo

You will have to add the directory to the start of the linker path, so your file gets found first. If memory serves, that's:
(do this before, and in the same shell as, configure and make)

Thanks for the answer, here is what happened:

$ export LDPATH=/home/myuser/files/source_linux/evas/evas-1.0.0_pre13:$LDPATH
$ configure --prefix=/home/myuser/usr

.... no errors here ....

$ make

... same error: ...
/bin/sh ../../../../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o libevas_engine_gl_common.la evas_gl_context.lo evas_gl_font.lo evas_gl_gradient.lo evas_gl_image.lo evas_gl_line.lo evas_gl_misc.lo evas_gl_polygon.lo evas_gl_rectangle.lo evas_gl_texture.lo -L/usr/lib32 -lGL -lGLU -lpthread

libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../..//libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive

then I checked my LDPATH:

$ echo $LDPATH

/home/myuser/files/source_linux/evas/evas-1.0.0_pre13:

hmm it seems that i did not have an LDPATH variable before. I confirmed this with a new terminal too.

I also checked the documentation for libtool and it seems it has a flag for the link mode:

`-Llibdir'
Search libdir for required libraries that have already been installed.

I dont know if that is the dir that libtool wants for libGL.la. I tried looking trough the configure and Makefile files but it was not easy for me to locate where should I insert the -Llibdir. configure and Makefile are still a little too complicated for me.

I would appreciate If somebody has any idea on how to install this as a normal user..

Thanks.

Leo