latest xorg & mesa cvs unresoled symbols

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed Jan 12 12:36:49 PST 2005


Jasmin Buchert wrote:
> Yes I built it with USE_EXTERNAL_DXTN_LIB=1.
> nm says it's texcompress_s3tc.o. So it won't work with EXTERNAL_DXTN_LIB?
> Compiling Mesa standalone it works...

When building it for libGLcore, don't do that.  That just enables some 
code in Mesa to load an external library for texture compression.  Since 
texture compression isn't support on the server-side (the GLX protocol 
isn't implemented), it won't do you any good to enable it.

> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 19:42, you wrote:
> 
>>Jasmin Buchert wrote:
>>
>>>I'm using the latest xorg CVS with the latest Mesa CVS included. I
>>>replaced the xc/extras/Mesa dir and added patches to fix compilation (see
>>>http://www.lugs.ch/~jasmin/xorg-mesa-cvs/patches)
>>>Now on X startup I get errors about unresolved symbols:
>>>
>>>Symbol dlopen from module /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is
>>>unresolved!
>>
>>That sounds like Mesa is being built with USE_EXTERNAL_DXTN_LIB defined.
>>  Can you 'nm /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a' and figure
>>out which .o files reference that symbol?  You should just have to
>>search for ' U dlsym'.
>>
>>!DSPAM:41e56fc3286346934510450!



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