Bug#912925: glx-diversions: should divert libGL.so when other libraries are diverted to NVIDIA as pyqt5 breaks otherwise

[Julian Gilbey]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > By this argument, surely there should not be a libGL.so on the system
> > at all?
> 
> The .so file is for use by the linker. Not for runtime.

Dear Andreas,

Thanks for the speedy response!	 Ah, I hadn't realised this.  That
makes some sense.

> > And it also does not address the serious issue that libGL.so
> > points to a different library from libGL.so.1.
> >
> > The discussions online show that this is an issue which has been
> > around for years.  The solution is simple.
>
> Does your testcase run under bumblebee?

I don't know; I could try when I'm next at my desktop.  I don't have
bumblebee installed (it seems to be intended for laptops).

Another thing I've thought of doing is wrapping the dlopen library
call to trace all calls to hopefully locate the source of the issue.

But I still don't understand why you would not divert libGL.so when
libGL.so.1 is being diverted - it doesn't make any sense to me.

Best wishes,

   Julian