Forwarding a bug report about GLUT... Eyal ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eyal Lotem <eyal.lotem@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:01 PM Subject: glut bug To: Sven Panne <sven.panne@aedion.de> Hi Sven, GLUT's build has a configure script. When that script says: "libGLUT... yes/no" its not actually looking just for libGLUT, but for various other libs such as libXmu. Additionally, when it fails to find these other libraries, and gets a "no", it still finishes the configure and build "successfully", but without the proper -l flags in the package description. This results in linkage failures of GLUT programs later. In my opinion the fix should include: A. Look for libXmu and any other such library in a separate configure item, so its clear what's missing. B. Failure to find necessary libraries should fail the configure/build/install, and not continue as if successful, only to fail later. Eyal