Where is libGLcore.so ?

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Mon May 12 15:39:19 PDT 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:
>
>  You can't keep them in lock step anyway - do a mesa build and install
>  it, then udpate mesa to a incompatible version and do an xserver build
>  and they're out of sync even with our current symlink technique.  The
>  underlying problem is that the glapi interface is part of the DRI
>  drivers and if it ever breaks, the DRI driver interface breaks.  This
>  won't change whether we symlink or not.  I don't think it's a big
>  deal, but breaking the compile time dependency on mesa source is
>  major, in my opinion.

That's why I was suggesting a versioned glapi library built in mesa
that libGL and libglx can link to. Regardless, what you're suggesting
is an improvement. Killing --with-mesa-source would be great.

--
Dan



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