Am Dienstag, den 14.03.2006, 18:59 -0800 schrieb Mike Mestnik: > > --- Felix K�hling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just uploaded the first set of snapshots built from the modular Xorg > > tree (20060226). This now has the latest and greatest changes in Xorg > > CVS that the monolithic tree did not have. Among other things this > > means > > that i915 should now work again, with rotation support. It also has > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt's memory mapping changes that should solve > > lockup > > problems on many Radeons. > > > > Please let me know if there are any new problems with installing these > > snapshots. > > > Great! > Any reason why prelink complains about non-PIC libGL? I think you need > to add -fPIC somewhere.
That's not my fault. I use the build system pretty much from up-stream. There are reasons why libGL is not position independent. They have been discussed at length on the mailing lists. You'll find it in the archives and/or in bugzilla. I'm not too familiar with the details but IIRC it had something to do with the efficiency of dispatch stubs. My understanding from those emails is that making them position independent incurs a run-time performance penalty that wasn't considered to be worth the benefit of faster loading or better security on hardened systems. Don't quote me on this, I really didn't follow those discussions very thoroughly. ;-) Regards, Felix -- | Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fxk.de.vu | | PGP Fingerprint: 6A3C 9566 5B30 DDED 73C3 B152 151C 5CC1 D888 E595 | ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
