[elrepo-devel] RHEL 7.6 and libglvnd

[Michael Lampe]

Hi Phil,

I've also experimented a little and basically arrived at the same 
conclusion:

https://github.com/mlampe/packages/blob/master/nvidia-x11-drv/el7/nvidia-x11-drv.spec

Additional changes: I've removed these two links.

1) libnvidia-cfg.so -> libnvidia-cfg.so.%{version}
2) vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.%{version}

There is no SDK for libnvidia-cfg, so nobody can link his own programs 
to this library. Hence no so link. And vdpau drivers are selected at 
runtime as libvdpau_<driver>.so.1. There is also no so link in 
mesa-vdpau-drivers.

I've also removed

3) libOpenCL.so*

because a (vendor neutral) OpenCL loader and SDK is available in Epel 
and it works fine.

About Wayland: Last I heard is that RH's tech preview doesn't work with 
the nvidia driver anyway, but I've never tried it myself. Does it work 
for you?

As for the 32-bit libs: I would only keep

   Requires:	libglvnd

and remove

   Requires:	libglvnd-egl
   Requires:	libglvnd-gles
   Requires:	libglvnd-glx
   Requires:	libglvnd-opengl
   Requires:	libvdpau
   Requires:	mesa-libEGL
   Requires:	mesa-libGL
   Requires:	mesa-libGLES

This is enough to make sure we are 7.6+. If you then install a program 
that needs EGL for example, yum will take care of mesa-libEGL and 
libglvnd-egl. There's no need for the driver package to pull this in in 
advance.

-Michael

PS: I've also removed

4) libGL.la

This would be in a system package if RH wanted it to be available.