Linux OpenAL 0.0.8-1 breakage

[danns]

I'm getting the following error when running Gish (or BCS) on ArchLinux 0.7.1 with OpenAL 0.0.8-1:

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undefined symbol: alutInit

I had a friend test whether this is a problem with the Arch Package for OpenAL by compiling OpenAL from the latest source on the OpenAL website.  The error still occurs.  

The issue resolves itself if I backrev to version 0.0.7 (found in the debian repository), which I compiled myself.  

I tried Gish on a Ubuntu Breezy system and did not get the error.  But the version of OpenAL is 0.0.7 on that system also.

[Chronic Logic - Josiah]

What does running 'ldd' on 'gish' tell you?

what happens if you run:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libalut.so.0 ./gish

Also if you run Gish with the sound turned off it should work, although it is not a fix for that problem.

./gish -nosound -nomusic

remember if you do this you need to turn the sound and music back on with:

./gish -sound -music

[danns]

Here is my ldd gish:

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dann@inferno:/mnt/games/gish$ ldd gish         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)         libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7f63000)         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb7edf000)         libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7e51000)         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7e3f000)         libopenal.so.0 => /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 (0xb7dfe000)         libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb7dd5000)         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7cbb000)         libvorbisfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 (0xb7cb3000)         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fad000)         libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0xb74f5000)         libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0xb74f3000)         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb74e5000)         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb73f7000)         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb73f3000)         libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb73ed000)         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb73ea000)         libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb73e5000)

the LD_PRELOAD options seems to work with sound and music just fine.  I'll use that for now.

[Chronic Logic - Josiah]

Someone reported having to kill "ESD" before the LD_PRELOAD would work.

[Chronic Logic - Josiah]

rkline reported that to get gish to work on Linux for OpenAL 0.0.8 or newer, you have to install freealut.