[Mesa-dev] [RFC] libGL.so.1.2.0 new name

[Kenneth Graunke]

On 10/05/2012 04:42 PM, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
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> Anyway, the my proposal is flawed too. `ldconfig` seems too smart. It
> seems to get the library name from inside the library and creates the
> symlinks. So no matter how I rename the library it will overwrite the
> symlinks. I witnessed how `ldconfig` creates symlink to one or the
> other library depending in what order it scans them.
>
> If there is a rename, the library should be compiled&linked with the new name.
> Maybe you can go back to pre 3.1 naming with libMesaGL.so ?
> Does anybody remember what were the problems that warranted the change?

Mesa has always installed libGL, never libMesaGL.  If you had a 
libMesaGL, that was likely because of your distribution's packagers.

Packagers are free to rm libGL.so.1.2.0 or the like...whatever they need 
to do to make Mesa and binary drivers coexist.

> The ideal solution would be if you kindly ask NVidia and Fglrx to
> cooperate with you and you all use the same libGL.so.

That's the idea: Andy from nVidia was actually the one that proposed 
unifying this.  So I have hope that this will get better in the future.

> Until then, please... make so you can coexist on the same plane with
> the binary drivers without resorting to individual/distribution hacks.
> No need to work together, just not overwriting each-others stuff.
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>     Ivan Kalvachev
>
>
> p.s. BTW, does the new ABI  proposal address  in any way the
> master-slave OpenGL relations like the one needed for Optimus Hybrid
> graphics to work? Because all I see is decoupling glx from opengl, so
> glx could be replaced by egl.
>
> In that regard... how does EGL handle multiple cards?