On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:21 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 19:26 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 13:31 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 18:52 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > > > > > > Although should we try and open "libGL.so" first, and then > > > > "libGL.so.1" ?? > > > > > > Can you elaborate on what kind of scenario you think that would be > > > necessary in? > > > > I'm thinking if anyone does libGL.so.2 for OpenGL 2.x (maybe) ?? > > > > But checking on other OS's I see one of my OpenBSD installs actually > > called it libGL.so.3. I've no idea why though. > > Hmm. Basically, whatever libGL's soname actually is, libGL itself (and > by extension this code) should know and thus be able to dlopen the > correct soname. I don't really like the idea of dlopening libGL.so > because it may pick up the wrong one with libGL.so.1 vs. libGL.so.2, and > it may not exist anyway when the distribution GL development packages > aren't installed. > > So, I think that these cases could be handled fairly easily in this code > once an ABI for libGL.so.2 has been defined or OpenBSD gets DRI > support. :)
Alan (and Brian), do you mind if I commit in this form for now? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
