Upgrade Xorg 6.9->7.2 dies in libGLU

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 25 13:11:55 UTC 2007


Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a problem upgrading xorg from 6.9 to 7.2 on a FreeBSD 6.2
> system: The first step, i.e. "portupgrade -Rf libXft" runs OK, but
> when starting the next step ("portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*'") I'm
> asked to run "pkgdb -F".
> 
> As soon as I start pkgdb -F, it tries to re-build libGLU-6.5.3 as a
> stale dependency. Building libGLU goes OK, but installing libGLU
> fails with the following error message:
> 
> ------------------------------ < Cut here > ------------------------------
> 
> mklib: Making FreeBSD shared library:  libGLU.so.1
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

As is says, it can't find libGL for some reason. Check if you have
libGL.so* either in /usr/local/lib or /usr/X11R6/lib. Something went
wrong, I'm not sure what it is but installing graphics/libGL should
solve your problem.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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