On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I've been trying to get a few recalcitrant packages to build >> (evolution-data-server, openoffice) but they seem to require things >> that my system does not have, and portage doesn't know this. >> >> So I'm trying revdep-rebuild, which also fails. In particular, >> x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0 won't build because during configuration, it >> lacks "GL library". I've been trying to use equery to figure out what >> package owns some of the things in the /usr/include/GL directory, to >> no avail. So here's the tail end of the revdep output, in hopes a >> more experienced hand can help... >> >> >> >> checking for GL/glu.h... yes >> checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no >> checking for glVertex3d in -lGL... no >> checking for glVertex3f in -lGL... no >> checking for glVertex3i in -lGL... no >> checking for glVertex3s in -lGL... no >> checking for glVertex3d in -lMesaGL... no >> configure: error: Cannot find GL library > > install mesa. > > openoffice depends on virtual/glu which depends on mesa
According to eix, I've got the latest stable: media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1; why would you think portage would not pull it in if I was emerging openoffice? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
