Re: ogle on Solaris sparc without libmlib

That's not exactly true. Programs that make use of libmlib gracefully fall
back to software rendering if no hardware is available for hardware
acceleration. That's in libmlib routines where generic acceleration
routines call platform-dependent routines. However, your application
-must- be linked with libmlib.so.2 in order to do that. So that pretty
much requires that libmlib.so.2 be present. In ogle's case on Solaris,
either we should dlopen() libmlib to see if it's present or make it a
pre-requisite for installing ogle. I'd recommmend making libmlib a
pre-requiste for binary packages since libmlib is going to be integrated
into the base OS anyway...

Just my 2c.

Vincent

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Jake Goerzen wrote:

> I've been told that programs that make use of libmlib should gracefully
> fall back to not using it if not present.  I've tried this by removeing
> SUNWmlib packages and running ogle.  But ogle_vout quits with:
>
> ld.so.1: ogle_vout: fatal: libmlib.so.2: open failed: No such file or
> directory
>
> I'm not surprised at this, but I am the ogle package maintainer for ogle,
> oglegui at blastwave.org and a bug has been filed regarding this issue
> (for the blastwave package).  Is this is the expected behavior because
> libmlib is required (not optional)?
>
> Thanks
> Jake Goerzen