[Bug 1709399] Re: LLVM symbols should be versioned to avoid crashing applications that load mesa's swrast and also use a different libLLVM

It seems that this could have been backported by now, the ticket has been open for (almost) a year now ... In the end I got fed up with having to point the library used by Mesa/Gallium to the much newer one I also use (something kept resetting it), and uninstalled the corresponding Mesa

[Bug 1709399] Re: LLVM symbols should be versioned to avoid crashing applications that load mesa's swrast and also use a different libLLVM

Current llvm-toolchain-* packages do have versioned symbols (since 3.8.1-22 / 3.9.1-8 / 4.0-5: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849098), but this 3.8 has not been backported. Note that loading the *same* LLVM version twice can also crash, for a different reason:

[Bug 1709399] Re: LLVM symbols should be versioned to avoid crashing applications that load mesa's swrast and also use a different libLLVM

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: llvm-toolchain-3.8 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709399