From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 02:38:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F472106564A for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 02:38:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Received: from wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62B08FC14 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 02:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6322uxR010659; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:02:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Message-ID: <4E0FCDD1.7050809@missouri.edu> Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:02:57 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "bf1783@gmail.com" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org" , "b. f." Subject: Re: x11/nvidia-driver incompatible with portmaster? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:38:17 -0000 On 07/02/2011 08:39 PM, b. f. wrote: >> You are correct. It wouldn't be NO_REINSTALL. >> >> But would you guys be interested in some creative way to make this work? >> Perhaps xorg-server could be modified to first check "pkg_info | grep >> nvidia-driver", and if this comes up true, then the xorg-server port and >> package would not install libgl.*. >> >> I could do something like this, but before I work on it and put forth a >> proof of concept, I would first like to hear good reasons why I this >> might be a bad idea. > > It's a bad idea because it's sensitive to the order of > (de)installation. It's always been unfortunate that nvidia-driver > collides with xorg-server and libGL. It would be better if > xorg-server and libGL were patched to install a linker script instead > of the libGL.so and libglx.so symlinks, which would favor the > nvidia-specific libraries over the generic libraries if the former > were present. Or if nvidia-driver didn't replace the shared libraries > of the other ports, but used additions to libmap.conf(5) instead. > The libmap.conf idea seems really good. So, the nvidia-driver ports install things like lib/modules/extensions/libglx-nvidia.so and then libmap.conf has a line inserted at the beginning like libglx.so libglx-nvidia.so Similarly with libGL.so etc. I'm not quite sure what to do with the libglx.la file. Isn't that a static library? What about the linker script? What are you proposing with that idea? Stephen