[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/8] glx: make GLX_ARB_get_proc_address mandatory

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le keskiviikkona 23. toukokuuta 2018, 18.29.59 EEST Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> On Wed, May 23, 2018, at 15:16, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Hmm, so there is a catch-22. We need the extension to load the
> > function provided by the extension.>
> > 
> >  We can still check at runtime and return an error. If the plugin is
> >  loaded lazily, it will prevent aborting on first GPA call. If the
> >  plugin is loaded immediately, then loading will fail due to missing
> >  GPA (and module subsystem will fall back cleanly).>
> >  Either way compiling a module that always fails makes no sense, and
> >  would raise warnings.Do we want to complexity the configure.ac to check
> >  for this function ?
> I think it's a corner case that is very unlikely to happen for system
> running VLC 4.0, that's why this commit was fine to me.

Then use #error. Knowingly compiling a nonfunctional plugin is silly.

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