Bug#537932: boinc-client should maybe recommend libglut as some WUs will fail without it

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi Alon,

Alon Horn wrote:
> i got this error on all spinhenge at home and leiden classical WU's:
>
> <core_client_version>6.4.5</core_client_version>
> <![CDATA[
> <message>
> process exited with code 127 (0x7f, -129)
> </message>
> <stderr_txt>
> metropolis_3.12_i686-pc-linux-gnu: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> </stderr_txt>
> ]]>
>
> manually installing libglut3 fixed the problem.
> problem did not show in CPDN & WCG WUs. did not test other projects.
>   
from my perspective the spinhenge folks should have statically linked
their application against libglut3. One can barely predict what future
libraries or version of some rarel library some application might depend
upon. If there is no writing by the BOINC developers that glut should be
available, then we should not change a thing. Does the regular BOINC
distribution come with libglut? My suggestion would be, and may I
possibly ask you to go ahead with this, to post about your experiences
on the spinhenge forum and collect opinions on their front?

Have many thanks for your report!! If the outcome of the now happening
discussion is that the boinc-client would install Debian packages on
demand or so, then I would kind of like that ... all possible technical
difficulties aside.

Steffen