[patch] Use dlsym instead of glXGetProcAddress in xdriinfo

[Matthias Hopf]

On Nov 22, 05 08:36:41 -0700, Brian Paul wrote:
> >>The attached patches (monolithic and modular) should fix dynamic linking
> >>problems with xdriinfo, that NVidia users were complaining about. 
> 
> (referrring to previous message) Why not just use glXGetProcAddressARB 
> instead?

Actually GLX 1.4 states that *no* extensions should be exported
statically, and at least the header files are not allowed to have a
prototype for glXGetProcAddressARB.

IMHO this is broken by design (backwards compatibility), and has
introduced major headaches for some games.

Matthias

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