[Mesa-dev] libvdpau_r600.so not found

[Younes Manton]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:01 PM, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to test out vdpau w/o success.
>
> It turns out that libvdpau_r600.so is in /usr/lib64/vdpau/, whereas
> everything looks for it in the standard ld path (ie, /usr/lib64).
>
> With »ln -s vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so /usr/lib64/« it seems to work.
>
> Is mesa wrong to install the libs to ${libdir}/vdpau, or is libvdpau
> and the apps wrong to look for them in ${libdir}?
>
> (Everything was compiled locally; most of the fdo stuff from git master.)
>
> -JimC
> --
> James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Mesa is probably wrong. You can specify it with ./configure
--with-vdpau-libdir= of course, but I can't think of a good reason to
have the default be not in the usually searched paths.