Bug#819990: [libnvidia-ml1] can not dlopen(libnvidia-ml.so) from app

[Luca Boccassi]

On 4 April 2016 at 17:33, Christian Beer <christian at os-tools.net> wrote:
> Package: libnvidia-ml1
> Version: 352.79-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
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> I don't know if this is suitable for this packet or if there is another
> solution.
>
> I debugged an issue with the boinc-client package where it couldn't get
> the cuda driver version using libnvidia-ml.so. It turns out I had to do
> 'ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/current/libnvidia-ml.so
> /usr/lib/libnvidia-ml.so' in order to get the driver version because
> dlopen() couldn't find the so file.
>
> Now whereis libnvidia-ml.so also works.

Hello Christian,

boinc-client should dlopen libnvidia-ml.so.1, which is in the main
/usr/lib/*/ path.

is the version package by Debian doing this? Or a custom application?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi