[Mesa-dev] [RFC patch 2/2] Build libgallium shared

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Aug 22 08:05:25 PDT 2012


On Mit, 2012-08-22 at 08:32 -0600, Brian Paul wrote: 
> On 08/22/2012 04:21 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > And build gallium shared :)
> >
> > TODO: it seems ugly that all xvmc/vdpau/va drivers specify libgallium.a/so
> > directly, maybe it is better to move it out from there?
> 
> The problem with a separate libgallium.so is it's yet another 
> component that has to be kept in sync with the drivers and another 
> thing that can go wrong if someone isn't careful about installing 
> things.  There's no versioning of the library either.

Indeed, if there's a shared libgallium, it should probably be versioned
like libdricore.


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