Bug#369732: libgl1-mesa-dev: Doesn't install - error creating symbolic link `./usr/lib/libGL.so': No such file or directory

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:03:03PM +1200, Srdjan wrote:
> I don't have /usr/lib/libGL.so on my system. I have
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2006-06-01 09:40 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
> libGL.so.1.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 447560 2006-05-29 14:56 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

What does dpkg -S /usr/lib/libGL.so show?

> My understanding is that libgl1-mesa-dev creates a symlink to 
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1, and that the error is thrown when that fails.

there's no sane reason why creating this symlink should fail on any proper
Unix filesystem.

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