Bug#819153: libreoffice: LibreOffice crashes when trying to edit diagrams: "does not expose __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast()"
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:32:46AM +0100, Leon Winter wrote:
> Yet, LO tries to resolve a symbol at runtime which was not garantueed to exist.
No, it doesn't. libGL does.
> If the LO package would indicate it would need a certain symbol like
> __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast then there would probably already be a hard
> dependency on the correct mesa package. At some point the "contract" between
> user and provider of the shared object is broken here as LO expects the symbol
> but it is not provided.
> Maybe the bug is in fact not in LO but the package of LO as it misses to require
> the correct mesa package.
Again, it seems libGL loads that, not LO. LO just uses GLEW (and via
that libGL(U)) and those symbols are fullfilled. LO does not use
__driDriverGetExtensions_swrast itself, that is a mesa-internal.
Regards,
Rnee
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