On 17 October 2016 at 16:39, Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@imgtec.com> wrote: > On Monday, 2016-10-17 22:53:20 +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:39:11PM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote: >> > On 17 October 2016 at 10:53, Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@imgtec.com> >> > wrote: >> > > On Sunday, 2016-10-16 16:38:35 +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> > >> On OpenBSD try to dlopen 'libglapi.so', ld.so will find >> > >> the highest major/minor version and open it in this case. >> > >> >> > >> Avoids '#error Unknown glapi provider for this platform' at build time. >> > >> >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> >> > > >> > > LGTM, and I guess the other *BSD will want the same since 7a9c92d0 broke >> > > them too. >> > > >> > I'm not 100% sure about that. OpenBSD (unlike other BSD) did bump the >> > major when the ABI breaks due to 'internal' changes - think of >> > off_t/time_t on 32 vs 64bit systems and alike. >> > >> > Unlike Linux kernel/distros, BSDs tend to be more relaxed when in >> > comes to ABI, I believe. Don't quote me on that one ;-) >> >> OpenBSD tends to favour simplified interfaces over backwards compatiblity >> and is more like a research system in that respect. As the kernel >> and userland are one source tree ioctl compat largely doesn't exist. >> System calls get deprecated and removed over the course of a few releases. >> So we didn't go through the pain of duplicated systems calls for off_t >> as mentioned, and don't go in for symbol versioning. Just major.minor >> library versioning, which is roughly symbol removals, major crank, >> symbol additions minor crank. >> >> I believe FreeBSD tends to go in for backwards compatibility more >> but am not familiar with the details. They also have a different ld.so. >> >> Perhaps an else case for 'libglapi.so.0' would be appropriate for all >> the other various unices instead of the #error ? > > Yeah actually, I'm thinking reverting this hunk of 7a9c92d0 might be a better, > to avoid the potentially huge list of every *BSD and other Unix: > Fwiw I've intentionally added the hunk since I was a bit lazy to check if the BSD(s?)/Solaris/others have bumped the major locally. Having a closer look that's not the case, so indeed we can add revert to libglapi.so.0 in the else statement.
Jonathan, how about we with the above instead ? Thanks Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
