glucose and xgl progress

[José Fonseca]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:20:49 +0000, José Fonseca wrote:
> So the problem is that the dynamic linker is searching libglxext.so
> symbols outside libglxext.so first, which is a recipe for disaster.

Got it: passing RTLD_DEEPBIND to dlopen fixes that.

> This problem is likely to happen only with DRI's libGL (as closed-source
> binary libGL's export different symbols). However DRI drivers were
> supported by Xgl in the past, so this problem should have happened
> before too.

Still I wonder what caused this to happen only now... Perhaps some recent 
changes in ld.so or gnu ld.

José Fonseca