Norbert Preining <[email protected]> writes: > On Mi, 25 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Yes, that's exactly as the packages are designed, since applications >> should be linked against the MESA (free) library, not against the >> proprietary NVIDIA library. The libGL.so link is only used while >> linking software, not at runtime. > Really? I remember faintly when I wrote my intel-nvidia switcher that > libGL.so was sometimes preferred over libGL.so.1. > What about a program dlopening libGL.so ? I guess that some of the > games might do that. If so, that's a bug; dlopen like any other runtime use of a shared library needs to open the SONAME that it expects, since otherwise it can get segfaults or worse if the functions don't take the arguments it expects. > Are you sure that libGL.so is *never* used at runtime? Pretty sure, yup. We haven't had any problems with this so far. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
