[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] configure.ac: fix the --disable-llvm-shared-libs build

[Jose Fonseca]

On 21/04/16 08:37, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 20.04.2016 22:10, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>> On 19/04/16 19:39, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> On 19 April 2016 at 15:47, Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> This still doesn't quite give what you want.  One can also have an
>>>> llvm with
>>>> component shared libs.  So there's three different options for llvm
>>>> library
>>>> configurations: a single shared lib, component shared libs, or component
>>>> static libs.
>>>   From the three - only single shared lib and component static libs are
>>> supported.
>>>
>>> Personally I'm leaning that we ought to go with the latter only... Esp
>>> considering the problems that people tend to have with mesa + steam,
>>> every so often.
>>>
>>> IIRC all the issues that we had with static llvm have been resolved.
>>> Plus we have great people like Kai who promptly send patches when
>>> things break (which hasn't happen in a long time)
>>>
>>> Tom, what is your view on the topic - are you ok with us switching
>>> back to static one and/or nuking the shared one ? Iirc Jose was clear
>>> that in his view one should just static link LLVM. I believe that's
>>> still the case, right Jose ?
>>
>> Yes, I think that distros should statically link LLVM.  Otherwise Mesa's
>> LLVM can clash with other projects LLVM, which can and often do require
>> a different LLVM version.  And there's *lots* of projects out there that
>> use LLVM and OpenGL, particularly languages w/ JIT compilation.
>
> FWIW, that sort of thing can work with shared LLVM with current versions
> of LLVM which use versioned symbols. I tested the gambas OpenGL support
> with gambas and radeonsi linked against different versions of LLVM a
> while ago, worked fine. (I also confirmed that it breaks with older
> versions of LLVM which didn't use versioned symbols)

That sounds promising.

Jose