libGL.la is not a valid libtool archive [SOLVED, at last]

[SeNtIn3L]

Hello!
I just copy contents of /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.la to /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la
Then I replace this line:
libdir='/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib'
with this
libdir='/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib'

All other settings can stay unchanged, since opengl version is the same.
Then I symlink /usr/lib/libGL.la -> opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la

Works fine for me, everthing compiles with accel.
( ati-drivers 8.21.7 , gentoo-sources 2.6.15 )

Or does anything speak against this method?

Greetz from freezy Germany.

[intgr]

[brfsa]

Right now I am using the stable x86 ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3, and I have same problem.
Even if I tried different versions of ati-drivers, same problem.

The file /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la is an empty file, so, after runnig eselect opengl set ati, it copies that openGL.la into /usr/lib/libGL.la

My solution was:

1. emerge ati-drivers in another healthy linux machine,
2. copy /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la from that machine to mine
3. run 'eselect opengl set ati'

everything works fine with DRI acceleration, but if I emerge ati-drivers again, it will go back to the libGL.la problem.

I think that the problem could be that the health machine did not have any LDFLAGS set in make.conf,
but the machine with the problem, when I installed gentoo from the beginning I used
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--strip-all"
maybe this caused the libraries to not work properly

during the gentoo installation, as soon as a package that require opengl failed, I found out the error of the libGL.la, removed the LDFLAGS, and did as said above....

untill now, no clue... Thou, my opengl works with this little hack.

I am going to try to emerge xorg-x11, and the packages that depends on it, plus other libraries.
to see if it works
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- OSX 10.5.6

[Al_Kane]

I'm having the same problem and just noticed that running

[Gentree]

anyone tried just binning this broken empty file?

I had this issue stopping xfce-base/terminal. I deleted the file and all went well.

That would seem preferable to suppliing a file from somewhere else that has probably incorrect information in it.


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[Gentree]