Instead of using g_module_build_path with the short name of the GL
library (eg, "GL") and relying on glib to add the suffix and prefix,
the configure script now directly encodes the full name including the
version number (eg, "libGL.so.1"). This is necessary because distros
don't always install the non-versioned suffix for the library.
The GLES libraries are left without the version suffix because it's
not clear what should be placed here and I can't find any
documentation from Khronos to clarify this. Mesa seems to install a
file called libGLESv2.so.2 but the IMG SDK doesn't install any
versioned library. There is an example of dynamically loading
libGLESv2 in the Chromium source code and that does not use the
version suffix even though it does use the version suffix for GL. This
implies that it's at least fairly normal to load the unversioned name
for GLES.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654593
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