[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] dri/common: embed drirc into driver binaries

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 02:26:55 AM Marek Olšák wrote:
>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>
>> People are having issues with apps because drirc wasn't installed
>> into /etc. I've lost patience.
>> ---
>>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/Makefile.am      |   4 +-
>>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/Makefile.sources |   3 +-
>>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc            |  84 --------------------
>>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc_built_in.h | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/xmlconfig.c      |  30 +++++++-
>>  5 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc
>>  create mode 100644 src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/drirc_built_in.h
>
> I really dislike this idea, but I understand your frustration.  Distros
> often seem to ship bunk /etc/drirc files.
>
> It seems that "make install" doesn't actually install /etc/drirc today.
> Fixing that would probably go a long way in helping this problem...

Making it load from $sysconfdir seems like the right solution to that
problem. Won't help the crazies using LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH, but for the
normal folk who just do "make install" to a custom dir and use
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load from it, should work just fine.

Perhaps we could install it to the dri directory (where foo_dri.so get
loaded from) and then just load it from the lib's directory? Might be
too complicated.

  -ilia