[Mesa-maintainers] Recommendations for building Mesa with LIBGLVND support

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:16:48PM -0600, Kyle Brenneman wrote:
> Ah, I'd forgotten to address libGLES* in my EGL patch.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the libGLES libraries in Mesa are just dispatch stubs,
> and nothing within Mesa depends on them. That is, if an application looked
> up every GLES function using eglGetProcAddress, then you could remove the
> libGLES*.so libraries entirely and it would still run fine.
> 
> If that's true, then a libglvnd-based build of Mesa could just skip building
> the libGLES*.so libraries, because libglvnd basically does look up every
> GLES function through the vendor library's eglGetProcAddress.

Thanks, Kyle! This explains a lot! I have done this now (removed Mesa's GLES
libs and reqplaced them with RPM requires to libglvnd's GLES libs; the same as
Fedora is doing) and it just works. :-)

CU,
Stefan

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