ld not finding libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib

gustavderdrache · 01-16-2006, 03:24 PM

I've been trying to install Jahshaka and got up to openlibraries. The configure script had a small problem; it couldn't find libGLU. I wasn't sure why, so I just ran ldconfig and tried again. No dice. So a friend turned me on to some example OpenGL programs to try linking glut against, nothing. Basically, none of the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib, from -lX11 and -lXm to -lGLU to -lglut aren't being found. But here's the weird part:

Code:

$  cat /etc/ld.so.conf 
/usr/local/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
/opt/kde/lib
/usr/lib/qt/lib

Code:

# ldconfig -p | grep -i glu
        libglut.so.3 (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3
        libglut.so (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so
        libGLU.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1
        libGLU.so (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so

Does anyone know what's going on?

bigrigdriver · 01-16-2006, 04:14 PM

One possibility is a dependency error (wrong version of GLU), but I'd think you would get error messages of some sort. Check the logs in /var/log to see if there is more to be learned.

Until you get it resolved, you could try running ./configure --help. Look for a configure option to specify include directories to search for libs: something like INCLUDELIBDIR=, and add that option to the ./configure command line. If it bombs again, check the logs.

gustavderdrache · 01-16-2006, 04:34 PM

I've been doing that so far, but when I just try something on the command line, ld replies 'ld: cannot find -lglut' or similar.