From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T06:35:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing ruby-opengl

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Thanks!  I don't trust debian-style ruby packages any more.. I prefer
> to compile it all Ruby related things and put it in one of my local
> directories.

Someone mostly sorted out the Debian ruby packages a while ago.

Also, if you really want to install bleeding-edge versions, you can 
always install the Debian packages, then install the bleeding-edge 
versions in /usr/local and make sure your search path loads from 
/usr/local first. I do that with all kinds of things, not just Ruby.

> But on my system, freeglut3-dev is installed.  And those other
> packages (xlibmesa-gl-dev and xlibmesa-glu-dev) are installed too.
> 
> joe@big:~/src/opengl-0.32d$ ruby extconf.rb

Looks like the version you have there is older than the one in Debian's 
repository (1.32f pl 1), and older than the current version via RubyForge.

> Why can't it see /usr/lib/libGLU.so or /usr/lib/libGLU.a?

After some investigation, it looks like

% apt-get install glutg3-dev

will fix it. At least, extconf.rb then works for me.


mathew