[elrepo-devel] nvidia-x11-drv additions

[Phil Perry]

On 11/03/14 19:51, Michael Lampe wrote:
> rshaw1 at umbc.edu wrote:
>

Hi Ray,

Thanks for your patch and comments.

>> In my work environment, several groups find it necessary to have the
>> OpenGL headers (gl.h, glext.h, etc.) installed along with the nvidia
>> drivers.
>
> These headers are supposed to come from mesa-libGL-devel. IIRC even
> Nvidia suggest to use the system supplied headers. (That's why they
> don't install their copy.)
>

We can package the nvidia headers, if necessary, as a separate 
nvidia-x11-drv-devel package. I'd rather do this than put them in the 
main package.

But as Michael says, it makes sense to me to use the OpenGL headers from 
the version of OpenGL running on the target system rather than those 
supplied by NVIDIA for any development work.

>> In addition to this, the attached patch adds symlinks and
>> ld.so.conf.d file entries for the (already installed) tls library files.
>
> The runtime linker will decide whether to look in /usr/lib64/nvidia or
> /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls given that only /usr/lib64/nvidia is in his search
> path.
>

This issue looks similar to this bug:

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=299

Did we forget to reinstate the symlinks when we reinstalled the 
libnvidia-tls.so lib in the el6 package?

Phil