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

[Dave Airlie]

On 23 August 2016 at 07:18, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> 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.

Can we get a configure switch for this, so distros can just do that?

Dave.