pyopengl install problem on redhat 8.0

[Roberto Lopez-Gulliver]

do this as root :

   root # cd /usr; ln -s X11R6 X11

and try again

good luck.

--r

lehmann at puk.unibe.ch (christoph) wrote in message news:<e9851925.0211290440.4c14ef03 at posting.google.com>...
> on a redhat 8.0 system (a31p thinkpad) i ran
> 
> python setup.py build
> 
> and got:
> 
> gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/GL.ARB.matrix_palette.o -L/usr/lib
> -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.2 -lGL -lX11
> -lXext -lGLU -linterface_util -lGLE -o
> build/lib.linux-i686-2.2/OpenGL/GL/ARB/matrix_palette.so
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> 
> please help me!!!
> thanks a lot
> christoph