[Paraview] ParaView 3.5 and 3.6 build problem, libGL.so location, OpenSUSE 11.1

[Dave Partyka]

I can mention this to the CMake guys and see what they think. We just fixed
a similar problem with finding libGL on HP-UX where it could be in
usr/lib/hpux64 or usr/lib/hpux32.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Graham Macpherson <
g.macpherson at opencfd.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had an OpenGL related problem building ParaView 3.5 and 3.6.  I'm running
> OpenSUSE 11.1, 2.6.27.23-0.1, x86_64, with NVIDIA version 185.18.14 drivers
> and OpenGL which came from NVIDIA's repository, i.e. here
>
>    ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/x86_64/
>
> When it was linking some executables I got a load of errors of the likes
> of:
>
>    Linking CXX executable ../../../../bin/ImagingCxxTests
>    /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001622gl'
>    /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001299gl'
>    /usr/lib64/libGL.so: undefined reference to `_nv001491gl'
>    ...
>    etc
>
> The problem comes from the fact that /usr/lib64/libGL.so doesn't seem to be
> the correct location for the proper libGL.so, at least on OpenSUSE 11.1
> with
> NVIDIA drivers.  If I run
>
>    ldd /usr/bin/* | grep libGL.so
>
> or
>
>    ldd /usr/lib64/* | grep libGL.so
>
> then every system executable and library calling libGL.so is calling it
> from
> this location:
>
>    libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.1
>
> rather than
>
>    /usr/lib64/libGL.so
>
> where CMake is looking for it.  In the past, I think the packages of
> drivers
> were creating a copy of libGL.so in /usr/lib64 (for example I have
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so.180.44 from previous drivers, which was soft-linked to
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so) so it was OK to link to it, but they seem to have
> stopped
> doing that in the most recent version, as that's apparently not where the
> OS
> is going to look for it.
>
> The reason I had linking problems is that I had the old version of libGL.so
> still lurking in /usr/lib64/, so it was linking against the wrong version.
>  If
> I manually create soft-links in /usr/lib64 to point to the correct
> libraries
> in /usr/X11R6/lib64/ then ParaView builds fine.
>
> I could suggest that the CMake looks in /usr/X11R6/lib64 in preference to
> /usr/lib64, but I don't know if this is a portable, general solution.
>
> Regards,
>
> Graham
>
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