>Da: kei...@vmware.com >Data: 05/10/2011 11.39 >A: "Christopher James Halse Rogers"<christopher.halse.rog...@canonical.com> >Cc: "Joakim Sindholt"<opensou...@zhasha.com>, <mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop. org>, "Fabio"<fabio....@libero.it> >Ogg: Re: [Mesa-dev] libgallium.so and miscelaneous buildsystem patches > >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.
A single library with all the drivers will however be bigger (compared to the single driver + eventual shared libs) and it would use more memory. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
