[patch] Use dlsym instead of glXGetProcAddress in xdriinfo

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:08:48PM -0500, Felix K?hling wrote:
> The attached patches (monolithic and modular) should fix dynamic linking
> problems with xdriinfo, that NVidia users were complaining about. Their
> libGL doesn't define glXGetProcAddress but only glXGetProcAddressARB.
> The cleanest solution that works with any libGL is to use dlopen and
> dlsym instead. This has the nice side effect that it removes all
> build-time dependencies on libGL and GLX headers. There is only one
> catch: does Xorg currently support any architectures that don't have
> dlopen/dlsym in dlfcn.h?

Darwin?  Anyway, I don't think you should work around bugs in Nvidias
protritary stuff.  They get what they deserve for not using the
canonical libGL, and they should learn painfully what that means.