On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 13:29 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > By this argument, surely there should not be a libGL.so on the
> > > system
> > > at all?
> > 
> > The .so file is for use by the linker. Not for runtime.
> 
> Dear Andreas,
> 
> Thanks for the speedy response!        Ah, I hadn't realised
> this.  That
> makes some sense.
> 
> > > And it also does not address the serious issue that libGL.so
> > > points to a different library from libGL.so.1.
> > > 
> > > The discussions online show that this is an issue which has been
> > > around for years.  The solution is simple.
> > 
> > Does your testcase run under bumblebee?
> 
> I don't know; I could try when I'm next at my desktop.  I don't have
> bumblebee installed (it seems to be intended for laptops).
> 
> Another thing I've thought of doing is wrapping the dlopen library
> call to trace all calls to hopefully locate the source of the issue.
> 
> But I still don't understand why you would not divert libGL.so when
> libGL.so.1 is being diverted - it doesn't make any sense to me.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
>    Julian

https://salsa.debian.org/nvidia-team/glx-alternatives/blob/master/debian/glx-diversions.README.Debian#L89

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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