No symbols in libopenal.so

[Rex Dieter]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

> I found the openal package in FC Extras.
> 
> openal-0.0.9-0.2.20060204cvs.fc4
...
> ./X-Plane-i586: symbol lookup error: ./X-Plane-i586: undefined symbol:
> alutInit
> 
> Running the following command on the libopenal.so.0.0 library seems to
> indicate that the symbols have been stripped.
> 
> nm /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0.0.0
> nm: /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0.0.0: no symbols
> 
> Which would seem to explain the undefined symbol for alutInit.

Because the debugging info has been stripped.

> Is there a reason this library was built this way?

$ yum install openal-debuginfo


> Is there an alternative package that has a libopenal.so.0 file that
> contains the symbols?

No idea, for starters:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
against Fedora Extras/openal

-- Rex