[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 237606] REGRESSION(r290506): [GTK] GBM dependency breaks build

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237606

Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Jim Mason from comment #0)
> Building on X11/nVIDIA, USE_ANGLE_WEBGL=OFF
> 
> I don't have libgbm, and building webkit for me has always succeeded without
> it.  GL seems to work fine; for example, I can run the tanks demo.  Now my
> build fails because GBM does not exist on my system.
> 
> After removing the GBM dependency introduced by r290506, webkit still builds
> and runs fine.
> 
> Is this going to be a hard dependency going forward, because (older) nVIDIA
> drivers maybe don't have it.

There has been some talk internally about making GBM unneeded at build
time, and relying on dlopening() it where needed/available at runtime.

I wonder if we could make the GBM dependency optional with USE_ANGLE_WEBGL
disabled in the meantime, though ��️

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