From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:53:48 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Failed to build libexoxy with nvidia-driver In-Reply-To: <20170829154054.GA3338@scaer> References: <1503935622.673191.1087468320.18EAD29A@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20170829154054.GA3338@scaer> Message-ID: <20170829175348.711eccb0@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:40:54 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Perhaps we should add a check in the lib*gl* virtual packages that they install > > a .pc file... > > Gut feelings only, but no. It is perfectly legit to be a provider of EGL > (or whatever other GL stuff) and not provide a .pc file with that. > > However, I can see the benefit for consistency. But then, it puts some > burden on the packager which upstream do not provide a .pc file, to > write their own... :-/ Not having a .pc file for EGL/OpenGLES, etc. will break lots and lots of packages. So I think it is a good idea to force people submitting OpenGL implementations to make sure a .pc file is installed. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com