experimental/ati

[MarcWeber]

ati-proprietary patches update, eg making blender run without failing due to missing libXext

one one line patch by Jaka Hudoklin

[MarcWeber]

Older open office writer cannot be started due to newer libXext failing with

/nix/store/ky0wl3jvvflnh6zymxiq5rrq0w83pff1-openoffice.org-3.2.1/lib/openoffice/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin: /nix/store/vxycd107wjbhcj720hzkw2px7s7kr724-glibc-2.12.2/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /run/opengl-driver/lib/libXext.so.6)

So maybe the better fix is to make applications like blender point to libXext instead of globaly providing it using LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

[viric]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 06:01:39AM -0700, Marc Weber wrote:

Older open office writer cannot be started due to newer libXext failing with

/nix/store/ky0wl3jvvflnh6zymxiq5rrq0w83pff1-openoffice.org-3.2.1/lib/openoffice/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin: /nix/store/vxycd107wjbhcj720hzkw2px7s7kr724-glibc-2.12.2/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /run/opengl-driver/lib/libXext.so.6)

So maybe the better fix is to make applications like blender point to libXext instead of globaly providing it using LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

I think it's not about providing libXext; I guess it's about GL, or any other
X-related lib in the env (LD_LIBRARY_PATH, QT_PLUGINS_DIR, ...), that brings in
libXext.

I think that's the usual case of a new libGL that requires a same-new libXext, but as
libXext came into the process already by an old libreoffice, the dynamic loader
can't link it.

I just run a new version, when that happens.

[offlinehacker]

Just to let you know, sha256 sum seems like to be not correct anymore, because ati seems like to have changed something in archive, so i made pull request to this pull request.

[domenkozar]

@offlinehacker @MarcWeber is this one still relevant?

[MarcWeber]

Don't know. Without the patch ati did not compile. I didn't change something since - kept using ati unfree.
If the derivations compile (for each kernel) then they are likely to work.

[Phreedom]

cleaned up, cherry-picked: 57032af