invalid line in debian/nvidia-glx-177-dev.links.in causing a broken link

echo "Checking for openGL"

cat > test.c << EOF
#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glext.h>
int main( void ) { glViewport( 0, 0, 0, 0 ); return 0; }
EOF

cypher@HackFleisch:~/mms-1.1.0-rc7$ gcc -o test.o test.c -lGL
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

cypher@HackFleisch:~$ ls /usr/lib/libGL.*
/usr/lib/libGL.la /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.177.13

cypher@HackFleisch:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-177-*
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Lese Status-Informationen ein... Fertig
Achtung, wähle nvidia-glx-177 für regulären Ausdruck »nvidia-glx-177-*«
Achtung, wähle nvidia-glx-177-dev für regulären Ausdruck »nvidia-glx-177-*«
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.

The issue is a broken link:

$ls -ld /usr/lib/libGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-08-03 20:30 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> /#usr/lib/libGL.so.177.13

I'll check the packaging in a minute.

Fix:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libGL.so.177.13 /usr/lib/libGL.so

Checking for openGL
- test ok

The first line in debian/nvidia-glx-177-dev.links.in looks like this:

#usr/lib/libGL.so.#VERSION# usr/lib/libGL.so

I don't know wether the # at the beginning was intentional, but it looks like dh_link does not look for comments in it's files. Either remove this line completely (which would result in not being able to link against libGL) or remove the # sign.

Thanks for reporting. You're right there's a "#" in the nvidia-glx-*-dev.links.in.

I'll upload the fix soon.

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 - 173.14.12-0ubuntu4

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (173.14.12-0ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Fix (LP: #254444) Remove pound from link in nvidia-glx-173-dev.links.in
  * Fix (LP: #259105) Add missing link to usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.#VERSION# in
    usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:57:50 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 - 177.67-0ubuntu1

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 (177.67-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Fix (LP: #254444) Remove pound from link in nvidia-glx-177-dev.links.in
  * Fix (LP: #259105) Add missing link to usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.#VERSION# in
    usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so
  * Add driver 177.67:
     * Added support for the following new GPUs:
       o GeForce GTX 260
       o GeForce GTX 280
     * Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating modes and
       transformations, for video memory pixmaps.
     * Added accelerated support for RENDER convolution filters for video memory
       pixmaps on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs.
     * Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can be used to prevent
       applications from using shared memory pixmaps; the latter may cause some
       optimizations in the NVIDIA X driver to be disabled.
     * Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including 30-bit devices).
     * Resolved various stability problems on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs, as well as
       some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI-E GPUs.
     * Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the TwinView display
       configuration while using Compiz.
     * Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream
       corruption.
     * Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect fake Xinerama information to be
       reported after enabling a second TwinView display.
     * Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC
       implementation.
     * Fixed a problem that could result in IRQs being disabled on some multi-GPU SMP
       configurations.
     * Worked around cache flushing problems (on some Linux kernels) that caused
       corruption and stability problems.
     * Added experimental support for PCI-E MSI.
     * Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:35:05 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 - 71.86.04-0ubuntu9

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-71 (71.86.04-0ubuntu9) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Fix (LP: #254444) Remove pound from link in nvidia-glx-71-dev.links.in
  * Fix (LP: #259105) Add missing link to usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.#VERSION# in
    usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:25:28 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 - 96.43.05-0ubuntu9

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (96.43.05-0ubuntu9) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Fix (LP: #254444) Remove pound from link in nvidia-glx-96-dev.links.in
  * Fix (LP: #259105) Add missing link to usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.#VERSION# in
    usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:59:46 +0200