Hello Slackers.

I have been having a problem with Tux Racer (It's a game where you "race" a penguin). I downloaded the source and tried the ./configure command. I get the following error: "configure: error: Your copy of glx.h is out of date. You can get a more recent copy from the latest Mesa distribution (http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net)."

This may seem really obvious to veterans, but I am new to all this. I have gone to the site, but I don't know what to get exactly.

This is what I did... I went to the site and downloaded MesaLib5.0.2 and MesaDemos5.0.2.

I compiled and installed those both.

I go and try the ./configure of Tux Racer again, but I get the same error. What is going on? Please help.

did you do ldconfig after you installed the packages that should fix the problem

How do I do the ldconfig thing?

Just enter ldconfig as root at a shell prompt.

I have done all of this but it still doesn't work...

Should I so something drastic? Like reinstall Slackware or something?

I feel like I did something bad to my system a while back... Maybe if I clean stuff out I will be better off or something. Any thoughts on this?

when you installed the mesa libraries did you do ./configure --prefix=/usr
or did you just do ./configure cause in the latter case that was your mistake according to the mesa website

Well... I have reinstalled Slackware, so I could clean out any crap I don't need. (My important stuff is on a different partition.)

Anyway, I am going to compile it the "old way". Install it and do the ldconfig command and then try tux racer again. Wish me luck. If I have any problems I'll post them.

EDIT:

Bad news again. It compiled (MesaLib) But I am haveing a problem installing. I did this...

make linux-x86

cp -r include/GL /usr/include

I got an error though, "cp: cannot overwrite non-directory `/usr/include/GL' with directory `include/GL'"

cp -pd lib/* /usr/lib

I am sure that my problem has to do with the second thing that got an error. I don't know what to do about this. I don't even know what I am trying to install.

There is a tuxracer package for Slackware 9.1 available at http://www.wareweb.net/slackware. You will also need to install smpeg and sdl_mixer from the same place.

If you really want to compile it yourself, it be done on a clean Slackware install by installing sdl_mixer, and adding "-DGLX_GLXEXT_PROTOTYPES" to your CFLAGS environment variable before running ./configure in the tuxracer source directory.