[Paraview] ParaView 3.5 and 3.6 build problem, libGL.so location, OpenSUSE 11.1

Olesen, Mark Mark.Olesen at emcontechnologies.com
Tue Jun 23 07:24:27 EDT 2009


> I had an OpenGL related problem building ParaView 3.5 and 3.6.  I'm
> running
> OpenSUSE 11.1, 2.6.27.23-0.1, x86_64, with NVIDIA version 185.18.14
> drivers
> and OpenGL which came from NVIDIA's repository, i.e. here

We had many problems with the 185 series (keyboard lockup, lost mouse,
etc. segfault in some commercial software).
We are currently using the nvidia 173.14.18 driver (with openSUSE
11.1-x86_64) and aren't seeing many problems anymore.

> The problem comes from the fact that /usr/lib64/libGL.so doesn't seem
> to be the correct location for the proper libGL.so, at least on
> OpenSUSE 11.1 with NVIDIA drivers.

With our nvidia driver version, the libraries are installed under
/usr/lib/ and /usr/lib64/

> then every system executable and library calling libGL.so is calling
> it from
> this location:
> 
>     libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.1

Strange.
On our systems, /usr/X11R6/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib64 exist but are empty.
In fact, the entire /usr/X11R6 tree only has a _single_ entry:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth is linked to /usr/bin/xauth


> I could suggest that the CMake looks in /usr/X11R6/lib64 in preference
> to /usr/lib64


This seems to be a problem with your particular driver version.
It'd be worth it if you dropped nvidia a line to let them know.

/mark
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