Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Bernhard Breinbauer <infopipe@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Re: XOrg 6.9
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:43:05
Message-Id: 200602020841.27472.infopipe@gmx.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Re: XOrg 6.9 by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Am Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2006 08:11 schrieb Duncan:
2 > Bernhard Breinbauer posted <200602020724.41772.infopipe@×××.net>,
3 >
4 > excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:24:38 +0100:
5 > > Am Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2006 21:16 schrieb Duncan:
6 > >> > * A friend of mine was only able to compile xorg-server when dlloader
7 > >> > useflag was set.
8 > >>
9 > >> ?? xorg-server is dlloader now by default. There's not a USE flag for
10 > >> it any more. Still, it's likely many of the testers have it set so if
11 > >> there's something strange that still tests for it... .
12 > >
13 > > Yes, but it is still a USE flag for nvidia-glx, and without it linking of
14 > > the xorg-server against the glx library failed. But we have to
15 > > investigate further before we can say anything for sure.
16 >
17 > In that case, you are correct, it /would/ require that USE flag, since
18 > xorg itself is normally built with dlloader now, no flag to choose.
19 > NVidia would have to be built to load that way too, flag or no flag, or it
20 > simply wouldn't work, and as it's still comtrolled by a flag, that flag
21 > will have to be set, or it won't work.
22 >
23 > So... I'd say don't bother investigating. It has to be dlloader, and for
24 > those still controlled with a flag, that means that flag has to be on.
25
26 OK, I mentioned this solution on bug #111877, let's see if it helps those poor
27 people :-)
28
29 bernhard