Re: Mesa vulkan layer path fix for core-updates

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Kaelyn,

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> Yes they can be. As a quick smoke test, prior to these patches
> landing, "vulkaninfo > /dev/null" would consistently print out vulkan
> loader errors about not being able to open
> libVkLayer_MESA_device_select.so. (I call it a smoke test because that
> layer not being found isn't fatal; I first encountered the errors in a
> breaking way when packaging vulkan-validationlayers for use with the
> tutorial at https://vulkan-tutorial.com/.)
>
> Slightly off-topic speaking of mesa bugs: another one that can be
> closed is https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43849 as the issue with mesa's
> reproducibility was fixed with a patch that landed in meson 0.59.0
> (which Guix picked up in commit b15c3dd9b0 from July 2021).

I've verified that mesa builds reproducibly now and closed 43849.

Thanks for the heads-up!

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Thanks,
Maxim