On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 20:14 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 09:24 +0200, Joakim Sindholt wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 17:58 +0200, Fabio wrote: > > > Can the patches at > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2011-August/011099.html > > > be considered for merging? > > > > > > Sharing libgallium should save some MB of installed space. > > > > And be an ABI nightmare for distributions > > No; it's a private library. Distributions will happily ship a > libgallium built from exactly the same source that the DRI drivers are > built from. Indeed, that's what currently happens for those > distributions with ship with --enable-shared-dricore, and what happens > in Ubuntu, where we've got this patch series applied in our never-ending > quest to cram a fully-featured linux system on a 700MB CD. > > Saving 20-odd megabytes is really useful there :)
An alternative would be to build all the drivers into a single library for maximal sharing. Keith _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
