[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] anv: Give the installed intel_icd.json file an absolute path

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Mon Aug 22 21:18:51 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:04:14 -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>
> > Not providing a path allows the ICD to work on multi-arch systems but
> > breaks it if you install anywhere other than /usr/lib.  Given that users
> > may be installing locally in .local or similar, we probably do want to
> > provide a filename.  Distros can carry a revert of this commit if they
> want
> > an intel_icd.json file without the path.
> >
> If a user is going to install stuff in .local, don't they have
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing there too?
>

Actually, no.  The loader will look for ICD files in
.local/share/vulkan/icd.d and the ICD file will point to the right .so.  It
should work out-of-the-box unless you either have a broken loader or we're
installing something wrong.
--Jason
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