So I've been working for a bit on trying to make libcairo built with gl co-installable with the standard libcairo in a way that would allow tweaking the ld paths to use the gl version but hit quite some issues on the way.
I'm attaching a debdiff of the tweaked version with some comments of the limitations of the approch, if someone wants to pick up feel free, to me it seems to start being hackish and work over what is reasonable to spend to just support wayland in universe for natty. ** Summary changed: - libcairo causes a significant 'across the board' memory use increase with -nvidia loaded + Nvidia drivers lead to extra memory usage for each process using libGL ** Patch added: "build libcairo2-gl binary" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/725434/+attachment/1953188/+files/cairo.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725434 Title: Nvidia drivers lead to extra memory usage for each process using libGL _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
