hmm. sorry for not answering any sooner.

thewade wrote:

Im trying to get gem-cvs compiled STILL, and configure still cant find my openGL libraries!

I know I have /usr/local/src/libGL.so and that /usr/local/src/lib is in my ld.so.conf file, and though my mesa library is libOSMesa.so and configure is looking for -lMesaGL, configure doesnt find the GL part, so perhaps something is wrong with my glut sources?

Will somebody point me to the sources of mesa and glut (-> GL) that they used for there gem install? Could it be that my glut and mesa are somhow wrong, even though I got them from openGl.org? I am totaly at a loss. Could it be a configure script problem?

glut is not openGL (but depends on it); you don't really need glut for getting Gem to run (unless you are in desparate need for the [teapot])

personally i am using the debian-packages to install xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev (and *-glu*).

so let us start from scratch

simply do "export LIBS=-L/path/to/my/libraries/that/cannot/be/found" prior to running configure. "export" is bash-specific, you might have to use something different for your shell.

thus the following file "gltest.c" compile on your system

<code> char glInitNames(); int main() { glInitNames(); return 0; } </code>

compile it with "gcc gltest.c -lGL"

does it work ? can it find the GL-library ?

if not, try "gcc gltest.c -lGL -L/path/to/my/libraries/that/cannot/be/found"

eventually, try to install the libraries to some place that is searched for sure (e.g. /usr/local/lib/), either with a "make install" (if this works) or by soft-linking the *.so files there.

hope this will help a bit.

mfg.asdr IOhannes

PS: try to set your mail-programm to break lines at 80 characters.

PPS: indeed, probably i should change the configure, so that additional library paths for the GemLibs can be passed via "--gemlibs=" and use the "--libdir=" for things like this.