On Die, 2010-09-14 at 10:57 +0200, Luca Barbieri wrote: > > No. The libGL ABI is well defined: > > > > http://www.opengl.org/registry/ABI/ > > Does the ABI forbid exporting additional functions from libGL.so? > > As far as I can tell, it doesn't,
Of course it doesn't, but what's the point? They can't be relied on anyway. > and only says what is required to be exported, and that applications > shouldn't statically link to other functions. > > The way things are now, some applications that work with nVidia or ATI > implementations will fail to link or fail to load with Mesa, which > seems undesirable. Applications relying on things not guaranteed by the ABI are broken. > A bug on this has just been reported. Sounds like not our bug. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
