[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa/mesa] Hardcode the DRI driver extension as .so to match it's current uses.

[Emil Velikov]

On 07/04/14 13:05, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 17:45, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> IMHO if we're starting from scratch we should use the platform specific
>> extensions consistently but neither suggestion matter in this case :'(
> 
> Can you explain your reasoning? This seems to me to be a foolish consistency.
> 
> For libraries which are only ever used with dlopen() and are not intended to
> be linked with (i.e. have some sort of plug-in style interface), there is no
> advantage to using the platform's default shared library extension, and it
> introduces extra platform dependent code to determine the library name when
> the library is used.
> 
It's just me being different (I like my bikeshed in green). Either way it does
not matter, as we're a bit too later for the party :)

-Emil