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

mserms · Last edited by mserms on Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:56 pm; edited 1 time in total

I came across this problem when trying to emerge kcontrol-3.4.0, but managed to ignore it as it's not an important package for me (I have kcontrol 3.4 RC1 installed). However, I'm now getting the same error when trying to compile media-libs/libquicktime, which is annoying.

I'm using GCC 3.4.3-20050110 and have tried running "fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.3", but that doesn't help at all.

Can anyone shed any light? This is getting annoying.

total_planlos · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:

i get the same error message at installing gtkglarea(needed by dia), but I`ve also no solution!! I have read in another thread it could be a linking problem but my symlinks are correct

hmm
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mserms · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject:

This needs a bump - still stuck

total_planos - do you have a link to the thread that mentioned linking?

rhill · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:55 am Post subject:

rhill · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:

er.. wait. if it's a 'not a vaild libtool' message, then fix_libtool_files.sh will fix it. note that .la files are text files. run 'locate libGL.la' and use an editor on each of the results and see if you can find any invalid hardcoded paths that no longer exist. then supply that to fix_libtool_files.sh

eg.

mserms · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject:

I have found a couple in /usr/lib/opengl... and a couple in /usr/portage..., none of whom contain any hardcoded paths (as far as I can tell).

locate reveals the file that the error is coming from (/usr/lib/libGL.la), but it is empty (no wonder it throws an error!).

So, the next question is - what do I do about that?

Thanks.

mserms · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

mserms · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject:

I think I've found a 'solution' - at least one of the things I've had trouble with has now compiled at least.

I created a symlink from /usr/lib/libGL.la to one of the libGL.la files that was not empty (xorg one). Feels super-hacky though...

total_planlos · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject:

I don't know, if it helps someone (with amd64), but I succeeded in copying the file /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.la to the following locations:

/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.la
/usr/lib/libGL.la

the files in these location already existed but they were empty. after that gtkglarea compiles

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Benson · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:08 am Post subject:

Just came around with the same problem while compiling gtkglarea-1.99.0 - is this a problem we should report, as there's not only the libGL.la file which is empty.... :roll:

EDIT: Seems like the libGL.la file from the nvidia driver package is emtpy, just copied over the one from nvidia and wanted to open it, but it was empty too - so i copied over the file from the xorg-direcotry, this one is NOT empty and now it's compiling...

rgds,
Benson

benkong2 · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

Glad this was here I had the same problem and copying the file worked like a dream... Learned another lesson :lol:

intgr · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject:

The correct way to fix this seems to be:

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

For you nvidia folks have you re-done

'emerge nvidia-glx'.. I think that is the package that provides the nvidia one. Try doing that then doing 'eselect opengl set nvidia'

intgr · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:

mbjr · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

Hi there,

Experiencing the same, seeing libGL.la full empty ( 8.20.8 ) -- seems to be a bug probably at Ati, however, did any1 try to emerge an older version? I'm just a bit afraid of using Xorg's openGL, I'm too scared of loosing my DRI support :-)

Thanks,
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intgr · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:09 am Post subject:

genestyler · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

don't forget to change path form /opengl/xorg-x/lib to /opengl/ati/lib

InsaneHamster · Guru Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 435

el_chavo · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 18

I copied the files like total_planlos recommended and kcontrol finally compiled, the libGL.la file from ATI was empty, must be an issue with the way the drivers are installed/packaged?

punzeroni · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Ulm, Germany

Hi guys,

I came across the same problem with ati-drivers-8.21.7. When I

intgr · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject:

punzeroni · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Ulm, Germany

intgr · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject:

punzeroni · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Ulm, Germany

Ok! great. Thanks for the explanation.

btw: up to now it all works fine using eselecting opengl before and after emerging