Re: which opengl packages for Octave 3.4 ?

[Andy Buckle]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Eric Chassande-Mottin
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> hi Jordi and all,
>
> here I am again with the issue I run into when installing version 3.4.
> I got all the build dependencies for version 3.2
>
> sudo aptitude build-dep octave3.2
> Unable to satisfy the build-depends: Build-Depends: libcurl4-dev.
> Unable to satisfy the build-depends: Build-Depends: libcurl4-dev.
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>
> but configure still complains about missing openGL libs.
>
> ./configure
> [...]
> checking whether ld accepts -framework OpenGL... no
> checking for GL/gl.h... yes
> checking for GL/glu.h... yes
> checking for glEnable in -lGL... no
> [...]
>  Do internal array bounds checking:  false
>  Build static libraries:             false
>  Build shared libraries:             true
>  Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
>  Include support for GNU readline:   true
>  64-bit array dims and indexing:     false
>
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find bison, but it's only a problem if you need
> to reconstruct parse.cc
> configure: WARNING: cURL library not found.  The ftp objects, urlread and
> urlwrite functions will be disabled.
> configure: WARNING: OpenGL libs (GL and GLU) not found. Native graphics will
> be disabled.
> configure: WARNING:
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
> configure: WARNING: graphics.  It isn't necessary to have native graphics,
> configure: WARNING: but you will need to have gnuplot installed or you won't
> configure: WARNING: be able to use any of Octave's plotting commands
> configure: WARNING:
> configure:
> configure: NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
> configure: NOTE: if the library on your system is missing required features.
>
> any clue about what's going on?
>
> thanks,
> eric
>
> dpkg -s libglu1-mesa-dev
> Package: libglu1-mesa-dev
> Status: install ok installed
>
> dpkg -s libfltk1.1-dev
> Package: libfltk1.1-dev
> Status: install ok installed

On OpenSuSE 11.2, I think it was the "mesaglw-devel" package that made
the "OpenGL libs" warning go away.
Also, I have "fltk-devel" rather than just libfltk, but I am not sure
about the difference.

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