diff -druN libGL/pointers.c libGL/pointers.c
--- libGL/pointers.c	Wed Jan 26 15:28:36 2000
+++ libGL/pointers.c	Sun Nov  5 19:21:46 2000
@@ -332,9 +332,8 @@
 static void *my_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
 {
    void *tmp = dlsym(handle, name);
-   char *error;
-   if ((error = dlerror()) != 0) {
-      fputs(error, stderr);
+   if (tmp == NULL) {
+      fputs(dlerror(), stderr);
       any_error = 1;
       return 0;
    }