Solved : missing ligGL.so.1 link Xchat wont build front end

[fuzzythebear]

After this afternoon's sync .. i get the following while
trying to build xchat :

checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.10.0... no
but
Installed versions: 2.12.1-r2
followed the steps as per message but still no go
so it wont build the front end ...

ideas ?

Fuzz
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[potatoface]

have you tried to rebuild gtk?
maybe revdep-rebuild can solve your problem

regards,
potatoface
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[fuzzythebear]

Well .. this is where it all begun i guess ..

I had trouble with X not starting and giving me nothing but a 1 inch square mouse
on a black background.After a many rebuild and poking around i replaced the ATI
driver for the latest i could lay my hands on : 8.42.3 up a notch from the latest
stable 8.39.4 that i had and was giving me trouble.

So .. here comes a batch of updates and xchat is in there and since the list is long
i dont pay attention till it's finished .. with a crash.
GTK+ wont build .. cant find libGL.so.1.
So after a many hours trying to get GTK+ to find libGL.so.1 from ATI
i realise that switching to xorg-x11 GL , then it works ..
check again .. the lib is also there from ati as per such :

/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1

and

ric@ric ~ $ ls -l /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 23 13:20 /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
ric@ric ~ $ ls -l /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 23 18:17 /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2

quite the same .. but for a few hours in the date ..

So . GTK+ will use libGL.so.1 from xorg and build .. but cant find the one from ATI .
When GTK+ from X11 is rebuilt , i can build XChat just fine but that's all starting
with the wrong libGL.so.1 . A little time bomb i got to defuse.

At that point .. im a bit lost how to fix this since eselect switching that says
all's fine you got ATI open GL but just aint recognised by GTK+

Of course .. firefox cant find the library either and works only when i select
xorg-x11 .. in fact .. anything that uses libGL.so.1 cant find the library and
dosent work.

So it's a chain reaction starting with libGL.so.1 that cant be found.

Ideas ?

Fuzzy
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[fuzzythebear]

once i got even higher up to libGL.so.1 and started the
process of elimination and checking bug reports i found
this :

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199633

there's a bad soname in the driver file

truly evil ! .. but if you follow the steps and make the symlinks
manually , then make the switch to ati's openGL then gtk+
can find libGL.so.1 , then you can build xchat and then firefox and other
programs affected can also run without trouble.

OUF ! WHAT A RIDE !
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[gr0x0rd]

I'm running into this same error as well. I've read the bug report and understand that I need to create these symlinks. I thought I'd created them but apparently not. I'm assuming that

[Spudgun]

Getting the same problems as gr0x0rd, any help would be great!

[gr0x0rd]

try this:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libGL.so libGL.so.1
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[fuzzythebear]

i did
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
and
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
and finally
ln -s /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

checked that the links were good by doing a ls -l
on them. that was all . i beleive i had one say it was already existing .

If you got more trouble please let me know.

Fuzzy
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