[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44467] libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #44467 (project octave):

Based on the extra information you found, in particular this match:


... /usr/lib64/libQtNetwork.la -L/usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libQtOpenGL.la ...


I suggest you look in your /usr/lib64 and /usr/X11R6/lib64 directories for
*Qt*.la files and see if they contain the offending -L/usr/lib64 string.

The *.la files are libtool library wrapper files. Most distributions do not
install them because they can cause problems, and the ELF binary format for
shared libraries on Linux has enough information that the *.la file is not
needed. If they are installed, then libtool will use the contents of the file
to assemble into the linker command line.

So if openSUSE does indeed install the .la files in /usr/lib64, etc, and one
of them has "-L/usr/lib64", then that is where the Octave build is picking it
up from.

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