[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/6] meson: Install libigt.so

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 02:56:04PM +0300, Petri Latvala wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 05:20:47PM -0700, Jordan Justen wrote:
> > On 2017-09-14 12:13:08, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > I don't actually know what the plan is w.r.t. installing the lib, so
> > > I'll leave this one for someone else to ack/nack.
> 
> The plan is to install the lib.
> 
> The concerns with installing the lib are that we should keep support
> for running the IGT binaries without and with installing. That means:
> 
> - Setting things up so that the runtime linker can find the installed
>   .so for installed executables, and builddir-.so for
>   builddir-executables.
> 
> - Making sure the linked .so originates from the same build as the
>   executable, using some better error message than just corrupting the
>   call stack. Nailing down an ABI for libigt.so is impossible.
> 
> With that said: Meson build system in general, and the existence of
> the .so in particular is for experimental users who know they get to
> keep both pieces when things break. And installing the .so is anyway
> something to be done sooner or later.
> 
> Acked-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>

Cool. I've pushed the three patches from this series, and my own series
(with the whitespace fixed) to master. Thanks for the patches and
reviews.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC