On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:27:01PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Ian Romanick wrote:
> >Keith Whitwell wrote:
> >
> >>Ian Romanick wrote:
> >>
> >>>Who is building the binary snapshots these days?  

I am.

> >>>We need to start 
> >>>(and should have started a long time ago) including libGL.so in the 
> >>>snapshots.

> >>
> >>
> >>Hmm, we've tried to ensure up until now that the drivers would work 
> >>with existing libGL.so's.  What has changed to break this?
> >
> >
> >The drivers work fine.  It's the old libGL that's broken.  It's supposed 
> >to export GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, and it doesn't.  As a result, Wine 
> >assumes that it's not supported and applications have problems.  The 
> >reason that I say we "should have started a long time ago" is that a lot 
> >of additional features are supported with a new libGL.so.
> >
> >I guess it depends on the purpose of the snapshots.  If the purpose is 
> >*just* to get driver bug fixes out, then including libGL.so isn't 
> >necessary.  If the purpose is to get bug fixes *and* new functionality 
> >out, then libGL.so should be included.
> >
> >I'm not doing the snapshots, so it's not really my call. :)
> 
> I'm OK with distributing libGL.so under that rationale.

Done. It will affect binary snapshots built from now onwards.

Jose Fonseca


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