On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:13:30AM +0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >> >Subject: Re: libXinerama >> > >> > It ships with XFree86 and RH should have installed it in >> >/usr/X11R6/lib/ >> >> My guess, is that he has a binary application he's downloaded, >> which was compiled on Gentoo or some other Linux distribution >> which ships all XFree86 libraries shared by default, and is >> trying to run it on a Red Hat system, which ships libraries the >> way XFree86 supplies them by default, which is no shared >> libXinerama, and having an application failure. > >As I remember, we ship with only a static libXinerama becuase we are >waiting for some agreement from the standards people (X.org ?) so that >we can have a stable, standard interface to the library. > >How is this progressing ? > >Until there is a standard we can't assume that Xinerama libraries are >interchangable between XFree86, Metro-X, Xi, fd.o, or any other >vendor's X libraries.
We build pretty much all libraries shared now, with the caveat that major revisions bumps may happen. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
