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

[Steffen Moeller]

Hello,

salonh at t2.technion.ac.il wrote:
> Quoting Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>:
>
> 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.
>>     
> 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.
>   
have many thanks for chasing the issue up, Alon. Somehow I feel that the
situation is not completely clear, yet. I googled against "BOINC glut"
and came up with several sites that explain that the BOINC graphics are
to be implemented with glut. Hm. Still, however, I have not seen some
explicit notion that the machine executing the client is supposed to
have glut installed or if that would be a volunteer contribution to the
BOINC-executed scientific app.

And should the boinc-client, which executes the boinc-application, be
the one that recommends libglut3? Or should it be the manager, without
which one will most likely not see the graphics in the first place?

Many greetings

Steffen