[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 01/13] gallium/dri: always link against shared glapi

Juan A. Suarez Romero jasuarez at igalia.com
Tue May 30 21:37:23 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 14:14 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> 
> In the early days of Xorg and Mesa we had multiple providers of the
> GLAPI. All of those were the ones responsible for dlopening the DRI
> module. Hence it was perfectly fine, and actually expected, for the DRI
> modules to have unresolved symbols.
> 
> Since then we've moved the API to a separate shared library and no other
> libraries provide the symbols.
> 
> Here comes the picky part:
> It's possible that one uses old Xorg (where libglx.so provides the
> GLAPI) and new Mesa (with DRI modules linking against libglapi.so).
> 
> That should still work, since the the libglx.so symbols will take
> precedence over the libglapi.so ones.
> 
> I've verified this while running 1.14 series Xorg alongside this (and
> next) patch.
> 
> It may seem a bit fragile, but that's of reasonably OK since all of the
> affected Xorg versions have been EOL for years.
> 
> The final one being the 1.14 series, which saw its final bug fix release
> 1.14.7 in June 2014.
> 
> To ensure that the binaries do not have unresolved symbols add
> -no-undefined and $(LD_NO_UNDEFINED), just like we do everywhere else
> throughout mesa.
> 


Turns out that this commit is making install to fail when libdrm is
installed in /usr/local/lib.


To workaround this, exporting LDFLAGS to "-L/usr/local/lib" fixes the
problem. 

But I guess there should be a better way to fix this.


> Cc: mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98428
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> ---
>  src/gallium/targets/dri/Makefile.am | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/gallium/targets/dri/Makefile.am b/src/gallium/targets/dri/Makefile.am
> index 459459ebed2..8363406c581 100644
> --- a/src/gallium/targets/dri/Makefile.am
> +++ b/src/gallium/targets/dri/Makefile.am
> @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
>  include $(top_srcdir)/src/gallium/Automake.inc
>  
> -if HAVE_ANDROID
>  if HAVE_SHARED_GLAPI
>  SHARED_GLAPI_LIB = $(top_builddir)/src/mapi/shared-glapi/libglapi.la
>  endif
> -endif
>  
>  AM_CFLAGS = \
>  	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/mapi \
> @@ -31,8 +29,10 @@ gallium_dri_la_LDFLAGS = \
>  	-shared \
>  	-shrext .so \
>  	-module \
> +	-no-undefined \
>  	-avoid-version \
> -	$(GC_SECTIONS)
> +	$(GC_SECTIONS) \
> +	$(LD_NO_UNDEFINED)
>  
>  if HAVE_LD_VERSION_SCRIPT
>  gallium_dri_la_LDFLAGS += \


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