[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46695] Test for OpenGL fails

[Michael Godfrey]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46695>

                 Summary: Test for OpenGL fails
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: godfrey
            Submitted on: Wed 16 Dec 2015 02:39:05 PM GMT
                Category: Plotting with OpenGL
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Build Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Godfrey
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

    _______________________________________________________

Details:

On fedora 23 there are packages which cause the tests
in ./configure to fail to find the libraries required for
OpenGL-based plotting. It took me a number of experiments
to find the "guilty" package(s). The test that failed first
was:  _XGetRequest not found. 
After removing a number of packages this was resolved, but then
the failure was: 
checking for glEnable in -lGL... no
(this had previously passed)
Finally, removing :

dnf remove libNX_X11.x86_64   libNX_X11-devel.x86_64

caused ./configure to succeed.

I know that this is not a precise report, but it would be
useful if the test could be improved so that less trial and error
is required in order to find the set of packages that are
actually required (and those that break the build).

It may not be possible to develop a fully robust set of tests,
but it might be good to include in the installation instructions
an indication that there are package conflicts.




    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46695>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via/by Savannah
  http://savannah.gnu.org/