Bug#597452: nvidia-glx: libGL.so symlink missing

[Russ Allbery]

Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel at msxnet.org> writes:

> Since I installed the latest version of the package, the libGL.so
> symlink is missing. Linked programs run fine, but compiling against
> libGL fails in the link phase because of this.

> $ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 13 20:35 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /etc/alternatives/libGL.so.1

> no libGL.so :(

Right.  If you want the development library link, you have to install the
development packages.  The NVIDIA development packages only put things in
/usr/lib/nvidia because normal Debian software shouldn't link directly
with the NVIDIA libGL.  Normally, you just want to install
libgl1-mesa-dev, which provides the *.so link.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>