"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Jens Owen wrote:
>
> >> > I've moved this field to the end of the structure and the libGL.so
> >> > compatability issue appears to be fixed.
> >>
> >> Hmmm, that might be good enough, but I'm not 100% certain.
> >
> >I'm worried that my hack of moving it to the end could possibly end up
> >writing over the end of the structure allocation. So, I'd like to try
> >your suggested fix of using the currentDrawable fied.
> >
> >> > Wasn't this stuff recently submitted to the DRI trunk? Maybe we can fix
> >> > this incompatability if this hasn't propogated out to any major distros,
> >> > yet.
> >>
> >> Yes, we should really fix it ASAP.
> >
> >Was this part of Mesa 4? So this wouldn't have gone out in XFree86 4.2
> >or any other source releases where we care about binary compatability,
> >right?
>
> The latest official releases of X we've shipped are 4.1.0 with
> Mesa 3.4.2, so whatever you change is not likely to affect us.
> I've looked through several other mainstream distros, and I do
> not believe anyone has shipped anything yet in an official
> capacity using Mesa 4.0, XFree86 4.2.0.
>
> You may want to contact other distro maintainers perhaps however.
>
> It would be nice if this can be fixed the proper way as you
> recommend, if possible.
Mike,
Fixing this field allows us to have binary compatability with the
libGL.so RH and others are shipping (XFree86 4.*). When direct
rendering, the libGL.so layer is a very thin layer, and the new TCL
replacement driver can completely encapsulate the Mesa 4 functionality.
Without this fix you must replace the libGL.so with the one in the DRI
repository. With this fix, you can keep any previously released version
from XFree86 4.*.
Regards,
Jens
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