libGL.la from mesa has the following line in it: libdir='/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib' The same file from bin-drivers have similar lines. This causes the following problem: If an app links with rpath against libGL using libtool, it'll hard-code the path into the binary. If this app was compiled when eselect was on xorg-x11 and then the user switched to a bin-driver, the app will use (slow) software rendering mesa. If it's the other way round (user compiled on bin-driver, switched to mesa-driver), it'll just fail. Apps that rpath-link are e.g. amarok, glmovie (part of smpeg), metacity and others, check with grep /usr/lib/opengl /usr/bin/* My proposed solution at the moment would be putting the /usr/lib-path in all libGL.la-files. As suggested by dberkolz, I'll try that out, rebuild everything that links against libGL and see if anything breaks. libtool-experts are welcome to propose solutions.
(In reply to comment #0) > As suggested by dberkolz, I'll try that out, rebuild everything that links > against libGL and see if anything breaks. Have you tried this?
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > As suggested by dberkolz, I'll try that out, rebuild everything that links > > against libGL and see if anything breaks. > > Have you tried this? Yes, couldn't find any problems due to this, so I'd suggest to change it.
I had a very similar problem, I switched to nvidia with eselect, and some library, like libglut had still the old GL library in the dependency This is the line I found in libglut.la # Libraries that this one depends upon. dependency_libs=' -lm /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.la -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libGLU.la -lGL -lSM -lICE -lXmu -lXt -lXi -ldl -lpthread -lXext -lX11 -lXxf86vm' some ebuild that include GL, and glu will then link with both, nvidia and xorg lib, causing unresolved. The fix was to rebuild freeglut
Hanno, what exactly did you change (and how)?
joshua: In the libGL.la (located in the portage-tree under media-libs/mesa/files/lib/libGL.la), I changed libdir='/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib' to libdir=`/usr/lib`
I'd like to get this in before we bump to 6.5.1 (which is to be released within the next days). Anyone objections if I go ahead and commit the fixes? Had no problems so far with my proposed changes, so if noone cries "stop" I'll commit them. I'd change the libGL.la installed by ati/nvidia-drivers and mesa. Any other package that provides a libGL.la? (I assume not)
Fine by me, might like to ensure it's ok with ati/nvidia maintainers as well.
I've committed it to mesa and will commit to ati/nvidia-drivers in about 1-2 days if noone from x11-drivers objects. Am I correct that nvidia-glx is deprecated and soon to be removed, so no need to fix there? For the long term, we could also think about completely removing libGL.la provided by bin-drivers, they shouldn't be needed. Comparing them, nvidia has a smaller linker-flags-line (probably enough) and some version-info, but I assume that's just for info and has no real purpose. After that being done, we could remove the switch-forth-and-back in xorg-server, which would avoid further problems (I had users crying that their x-server couldn't be restarted while compiling xorg-server).
To my knowledge nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel are deprecated. nvidia-drivers is what would need to be updated.
ati-drivers uses mesas libGL.la and I've committed the changes to nvidia-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers.
Awesome, thanks Hanno. I believe this if fixed now.
