[Mesa-dev] The long way to a faster build with shared libs and some fixes ...

[Johannes Obermayr]

I see current situation is better:

Symbol table '.dynsym' contains ...

master:

libdricore:     3675
i965_dri:        398


after [PATCH 10/21]:

classic drivers:
libmesacore:     839
libmesadri:      348
total:          1187
i965_dri:        397

gallium drivers:
libgallium:      833
libmesacore:     839
libmesagallium:  360
total:          2032

Complaining about the weather instead of opening the shutter to see the sun.

Am Donnerstag, 12. September 2013, 00:44:58 schrieb Kenneth Graunke:
> On 09/11/2013 11:41 PM, Christian König wrote:
> > I completely agree.
> > 
> > Building everything shared might speed up the build process a little bit
> > and save some space, but for the cost of having to handle allot of
> > rather small shared libraries where which each clashing the symbol space
> > of any application using these drivers with a bunch of unnecessary symbols.
> > 
> > Building everything as one big blob sounds like the better idea.
> > 
> > Christian.
> 
> Not to mention...installing a ton of shared libraries is just asking for
> version mismatch problems.  I've had a /ton/ of problems due to
> mismatching libdricore and i965_dri.so...usually due to rpath shenanigans.
> 
> If anything, I'd like to get rid of libdricore and build core Mesa and
> the drivers together again.  No more version clashes.  Far fewer symbols
> exported.  LTO for extra performance with no extra effort...
> 
> Faster build times are nice, but...not if it means shipping a ton of
> shared libraries...
> 
> --Ken