Le lundi 29 mars 2010 à 16:12 -0700, Andy Ritger a écrit : > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: > > > > then NVIDIA could be so kind and fix the "NVIDIA Linux driver" > > to build and work properly with alternate libc implementations, like > > uclibc (glibc is hard-linked in libGL supplied with The Driver) >
> If uclibc provided the same ABI as glibc then I would expect NVIDIA's > libGL.so to work with uclibc. However, my understanding is that binary > compatiblity (either with glibc or even with prior uclibc releases) > is a non-goal of the uclibc project. > > For better or worse, the NVIDIA driver is provided as binary-only, > so it is not terribly well suited to deal with system library binary > interface changes. > Just a technical thought: The libGL.so could also be provided as an ELF relocatable object file, so still a binary, which could be linked to the system C library whatever is it (with some restrictions) at installation (or at packaging time). This won't help for some ABI/API incompatibilities with C library used by NVIDIA to built from sources, but that a step forward. Regards. -- Yann Droneaud _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg