Changing private symbols to public (was: Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk))

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Feb 2 15:22:02 PST 2005


On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:57, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> >As a note, Jakub's patch to the Mesa parts of XFree86 has been
> >applied for some time now (after extensive rework, by IDR &
> >Brian, I think - the original had some largish issues).
>
> Jakub wrote a larger patch for the rest of the X libraries, etc.
> to make the whole shebang hide internal symbols and reduce
> relocation processing overhead also.  This is the patch I was
> referring to above, however it's great to see the Mesa stuff
> eventually got integrated too.
>
> On a side note, I talked with ajax and others in IRC yesterday a
> bit about the above, and he also mentioned Mesa had been cleaned
> up a bit by idr.
>
> One question I neglected to ask, was if libGL is now prelinkable,
> or if further work is required to implement all of the
> functionality from Jakub's original Mesa patches?

Yes, iff you don't build the assembly dispatch table (ie linux-dri target and 
not linux-dri-x86).  But I believe that's the only missing piece.

- ajax
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