Bug 812

Summary: Drivers don't have _glapi_DispatchTSD weak symbol
Product: DRI Reporter: Ian Romanick <idr>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: DRI git   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Ian Romanick 2004-06-29 12:14:45 UTC 
As the TLS work progress, the convention used by drivers to get the pointer to
the current dispatch table from libGL changes.  In single-threaded mode, the
variable _glapi_DispatchTSD holds a pointer to the dispatch table.  In
multi-threaded mode, that variable is NULL, and the function _glapi_get_dispatch
must be called.  In order to support older versions of libGL (i.e., ones that
don't have _glapi_DispatchTSD) an ELF "weak" symbol was added to dri_util.c.

For drivers built in the Mesa tree, this symbol shows up, as weak, in the
*_dri.so files.  However, the *_dri.so files built in the DRI don't have it. 
The net result is these drivers won't work with, for example, the libGL from the
current Xorg tree.  I suspect that the problem is just the options passed to gcc
when the *_dri.so is linked.
Comment 1 Ian Romanick 2005-08-06 08:14:10 UTC 
The weak version of _glapi_DispatchTSD was removed from dri_util.c.  As stated
in the bug report, this was only needed to support versions of libGL that did
not have this symbol.  Versions of libGL without this symbol are no longer
supported at all, so it is totally irrelevant.

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