Re: Why the GTK+ wayland backend can't be enabled in linux distros, at all

2012-03-27 Thread Pierre-Loup A. Griffais
On 03/27/2012 06:35 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: [...] 1) prelink refused to work on ELF modules with text relocations, which excluded the NVidia libs outright I'm using the --reloc-only option, which works fine even on our non-PIC x86 binaries. Prelinking helps with load time processing, but

Re: Why the GTK+ wayland backend can't be enabled in linux distros, at all

2012-03-27 Thread Pierre-Loup A. Griffais
Hi Thiago, Thanks for your interest in the NVIDIA driver; please allow me to try to clarify the situation. You're right that we're not building with -fPIC for performance reasons, but that only applies to the x86 platform. No text relocations should be present in our x86_64 libraries thanks to