| Summary: | x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: please install libnvidia-tls.so* into /usr/lib | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alexander Monakov <amonakov+bugs.gentoo> |
| Component: | [OLD] Library | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | cardoe |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 442550 | ||
afaik, this is the case with 310.x |
This is an enhancement request to install libnvidia-tls.so* files into system library search path (/usr/lib{64,32,}), not into /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib, like other driver files (e.g. libnvidia-glcore.so). The aforementioned files do not conflict with other packages. At the moment, only libnvidia-tls.so and libGL.so are installed in /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib. libGL.so obviously should stay there. As I understand, libnvidia-tls.so is installed separately due to historical reasons that do not matter today. The current arrangement causes problems if the user runs their primary X server with open-source drivers (thus needing "eselect opengl xorg-x11"), and then starts a secondary X server that is configured to load nvidia drivers. The user then might want to run an application that loads nvidia libGL.so on the secondary X server (by setting the library to use via application-specific means, such as an environment variable), but that will fail because libnvidia-tls.so will not be found by dynamic linker lookup. In many cases, that can be worked around by pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib, but LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored for set-uid programs. Examples of specific applications that will benefit from moving libnvidia-tls.so to default search path are VirtualGL (OpenGL offloading library), primus (a lightweight faster OpenGL offloading library for Bumblebee users) and possibly Chromuim (not the browser, but a complex OpenGL rendering "router" for parallel rendering). Using VirtalBox+VirtualGL is a specific real-life use case, where exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for libnvidia-tls.so does not work because LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored for set-uid programs. Reproducible: Always