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On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 11:29, Arcady Genkin wrote: |
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> Since we updated to the new NVIDIA drivers layout I have seen a lot of |
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> noise about it in -users and in the bug tracker. I still think that |
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> we did the right thing by moving the drivers into /opt, and I still |
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> think that the applications that don't honor run-time linker's |
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> resolution of libGL.so to /opt/nvidia/lib are broken. However, I |
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> think that we can improve the situation a bit. |
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> |
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> Some premises: |
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> 1. Drobbins voice a hypothesis that some programs (quake) have |
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> "/usr/lib/libGL.so" hardcoded and use a system call to load the |
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> lbrary. |
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Some application/configure (OpenCascade) expect that all OpenGL |
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header-files (gl.h and glu.h) or/and lib-files (libGL and libGLU) are in |
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the same dir. |
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> 2. It seems that compilation sybsystems of other programs (gltron, |
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> perhaps?) define run-time library paths at compile time by passing the |
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> linker "-rpath" option. |
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> 3. Xfree installs *symlinks* |
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> /usr/lib/libGL.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so |
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> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 |
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> it's important that they are symlinks. |
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> |
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> A possible solution: |
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> 1. Xfree ebuild does *not* install the symlinks. |
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> 2. Instead we create a separate package that would install just the |
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> symlinks into /usr/lib (for people that do not use NVIDIA drivers). |
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> We can name it "xfree-gl-symlinks" or just "xfree-gl". |
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> 3. For the people who use NVIDIA drivers, we make nvidia-glx pacakge |
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> install the synlinks in /usr/lib, pointing to /opt/nvidia/lib, |
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> naturally. |
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> |
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> This ain't pretty, and it's a kludge. I don't like it much, but I |
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> think that this will make lives of many users easier, at a nominal |
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> cost. If anyone can think of another way to fix the problem, I hope |
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> that a better idea exits. ;^) |
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> |
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> Comments? |
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I go for it! |
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> -- |
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> Arcady Genkin |
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> Don't read everything you believe. |
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