mesa-9 and virtual/glu conflict [SOLVED]

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askoff · Post by **askoff** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:41 am

currently virtual/glu package keeps me from updating mesa from 8.0.4-r1 to any newer. Why is that? I would realy like to get newer mesa in use.

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:59 pm

Is there something in your system depending on an old version of GLU?
Post you emerge results...

askoff · Post by **askoff** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:05 pm

Unfortunately I'm using paludis as a package manager, if it makes any difference. Anyway.
What do you mean about an old version of GLU? Is there a newer than virtual/glu-9.0? In that ebuild, there is a dependency for old mesa.
RDEPEND="|| ( media-libs/glu <media-libs/mesa-9 media-libs/opengl-apple )"

It seems that I have only media-libs/libsdl installed that depends on the virtual/glu package.

EDIT: actually, quite a many package requires the virtual/glu package when opengl use flag is enabled.

These for example:
app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2
kde-base/kinfocenter-4.10.5
media-libs/freeglut-2.8.0-r1

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:48 am

Oh fsck. I vaguely remember now. This was due to glu doing weird stuff in the past - splitting and joining and splitting once more... Searching f.g.o this is the solution:

Since virtual/glu-9 depends on having glu-9 or something older than mesa-9 or apple opengl installed, simply emerging media-libs/glu-9.0.0-r1 will satisfy the virtual. So try

emerge --oneshot media-libs/glu

This should pick up glu-9.0.0-r1 (as of recent default portage tree) and this should let you finish whatever you were using in pauldis. It will also pick up mesa-9 for you because it depends on mesa-9, so you should be golden there.

askoff · Post by **askoff** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:54 am

That worked. Thank you. Marking the thread as solved.

Paludis though required some additional magick, but in the end that was the basic solution.

nowhereman · Post by **nowhereman** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:30 pm

Thank you both, this solved my problem too.

When updating my gentoo system, some packages failed, complaining about "-lGlu" missing.
It seems none of them required "virtual/glu-9", so I still had "virtual/glu-7.0" together
with "mesa-9.1.2-r1" installed, which doesn't provide -lGlu anymore.
I'm also using paludis, so that could be having an impact. But after manually installing "media-libs/glu",
I could upgrade to "virtual/glu-9.0" and the compilation errors went away.

The splitting seems to be discussed here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432516