Brian Paul <bri...@vmware.com> writes:

> On 01/20/2014 06:19 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> I can't see why this would be needed at all. The X.Org loader was
>> modified to look for the new symbol names (i.e., the one added in this
>> patch) but still looks for the regular ones too.
>>
>> And since Jordan's patch to megadrivers, the X.Org loader doesn't even
>> need to look for the new symbol names
>
> I first saw this problem back in November at one point and I created the 
> patch then.  At some pointer after, I forgot about the patch and I 
> wasn't see the issue anymore.  I figured something in the DRI 
> infrastructure changed, thus making the patch obsolete.
>
> But then, just a week or so ago, a coworker was setting up a new devel 
> environment when it resurfaced for her:
>
> $ ./glxgears
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so
> libGL: driver does not expose __driDriverGetExtensions_vmwgfx(): 
> /usr/lib/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so: undefined symbol: 
> __driDriverGetExtensions_vmwgfx
>
> Honestly, I haven't had time to dig into this to know if there's a stale 
> component somewhere that's responsible.

That's just the loader not being careful about it error messages -- it
throws the message even in the success case if the symbol isn't
present.  We should fix that.

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