[Mesa-dev] libgallium.so and miscelaneous buildsystem patches

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:39 +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 20:14 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 09:24 +0200, Joakim Sindholt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 17:58 +0200, Fabio wrote:
> > > > Can the patches at
> > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2011-August/011099.html
> > > > be considered for merging?
> > > > 
> > > > Sharing libgallium should save some MB of installed space.
> > > 
> > > And be an ABI nightmare for distributions
> > 
> > No; it's a private library.  Distributions will happily ship a
> > libgallium built from exactly the same source that the DRI drivers are
> > built from.  Indeed, that's what currently happens for those
> > distributions with ship with --enable-shared-dricore, and what happens
> > in Ubuntu, where we've got this patch series applied in our never-ending
> > quest to cram a fully-featured linux system on a 700MB CD.
> > 
> > Saving 20-odd megabytes is really useful there :)
> 
> An alternative would be to build all the drivers into a single library
> for maximal sharing.

Yeah, that would be another option.  It's more invasive though, which is
one of the reasons why I didn't do it first.

As far as I can tell it requires a new API between the libGL and the
loaded DRI driver - or just having a monolithic libGL - with concomitant
changes to the X server.  That's not impossible, but is more difficult.

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