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

[salonh at t2.technion.ac.il]

Quoting Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>:

> 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
> 

hi,
after some testing with other projects it appears to be a problem only with
these 2 projects, who just happened to be 2 of 4 on my list...
i've taken the matter to their forums. as you said it seems like something that
they should solve locally.
sorry for this... just me jumping to conclusions based on too little info.

regards,
alon