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| author | jon <jon@lunarg.com> | 2015-10-29 15:17:52 -0600 |
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| committer | jon <jon@lunarg.com> | 2015-10-29 15:17:52 -0600 |
| commit | 062763788b1540cde37e7d23a1b9710dda65854f (patch) | |
| tree | 874c86ab81e1306e083764b07ca1bd20d6074c39 /loader | |
| parent | 3ef20ef8995b662aad45ef069bd3e96e65150d6d (diff) | |
| download | usermoji-062763788b1540cde37e7d23a1b9710dda65854f.tar.xz | |
loader: Update linux documentation on where ICD lives.
Diffstat (limited to 'loader')
| -rw-r--r-- | loader/LinuxICDs.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/loader/LinuxICDs.txt b/loader/LinuxICDs.txt index 1e50f651..a36bff6b 100644 --- a/loader/LinuxICDs.txt +++ b/loader/LinuxICDs.txt @@ -33,12 +33,9 @@ The “library_path” specifies either a filename, a relative pathname or a ful pathname to an ICD shared library file, which the loader will attempt to load
using dlopen(). If the layer is specified via a relative pathname, it is
relative to the path of the info file. If the ICD is specified via a filename,
-the shared library lives in the following system directory:
-
-/$libdir/vulkan/icd
-
-where $libdir specifies where libraries reside on the given Linux distribution
-(e.g. “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu” on 64-bit Debian-based distributions, or
+the shared library lives in the system directory as defined by the Linux
+distribution, such that dlopen() will find the library. (e.g.
+“/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu” on 64-bit Debian-based distributions, or
“/usr/lib64” on 64-bit Red Hat-based systems).
The “file_format_version” provides a major.minor.patch version number in case
@@ -233,12 +230,9 @@ to load using dlopen(). If the layer is specified via a relative pathname, it is relative to the path of the info file (e.g. for cases when an application
provides a layer that is in the same directory hierarchy as the rest of the
application files). If the layer is specified via a filename, the shared
-library lives in the following system directory:
-
-/$libdir/vulkan/layer
-
-where $libdir specifies where libraries reside on the given Linux distribution
-(e.g. “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu” on 64-bit Debian-based distributions, or
+library lives in the system directory as defined by the Linux distribution,
+such that dlopen() will find the library. (e.g.
+“/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu” on 64-bit Debian-based distributions, or
“/usr/lib64” on 64-bit Red Hat-based systems).
There are no rules about the name of the text files (except the .json suffix).
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