[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 08/11] confiigure: drop unused variable GBM_BACKEND_DIRS

[Emil Velikov]

On 19/06/15 22:00, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> 
> s/confiigure/configure/ in the subject.
> 
Will fix.

> After that, and some cleanup of the commit message in 4, patches 1-8
> will be:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> 
Thanks.

> I find 9/10 weird -- if the DRI drivers need libglapi, why aren't they
> just linking libglapi?
> 
Short version - currently they don't because of hysterical raisins, once
we move to shared-glapi only libGL we'll add the link.

Long version - the dri modules require glapi provider. Which could be
either one of:
1) the xserver glapi (no longer there since ~1.14)
2) libGL with static glapi
3) the shared glapi

Thanks to some interesting overlinking of libgbm, which itself has
propagated to libEGL, people won't notice the issue if they're not using
1) or 2). So people working directly with EGL/gbm (wayland/weston folk,
everyone writing their wayland compositor, Google with their gbm work)
has noticed those and had the same workaround for a while. While most of
us working with X and/or GLX did not see it.

This of course is prominent, (only?) when using dlopen(libgbm/libEGL),
rather than linking against them.

When 1) and 2) are gone (second is on it's way out), we can add the link
to the dri modules. Although neither helps in the case of "using old dri
module with new loader", thus the need for the explicit dlopen().


Thanks
Emil