At 4:17 PM -0400 5/31/02, David R. Morrison wrote: >Just to followup one more time: Torrey, we've had a bit more discussion >among fink developers on IRC, and it turns out that the problem which >Justin is having with xine is related to the lack of x-shm support on >Darwin. Somehow with the shared libs he can get around this (I wasn't >too clear about how). Do you know the status of x-shm support in Darwin?
As far as I know x-shm support is still stuck at not good enough to be useable because of small number of shared memory segments Darwin supports. We may fix this issue in OpenDarwin. I also proposed, and the XFree86 Core Team embraced, an idea to write an update to the MIT-SHM extension that uses POSIX shared memory. In the mean time, x-shm basically doesn't work on Darwin. Now that I understand the problem I think the best compromise is do something like Justin suggested and put libXv and libXinerama shared libraries in a special package. (Actually I'm still not sure why you would need libXinerama, but once you've got the package you can go crazy if you want.) Those packages that need these shared libraries can depend on the "shared-lib" or "xfree86-extras" package. These shared libs should be installed somewhere in /sw so they do not pollute normal builds of X11 applications that don't need these non-standard shared libraries. The packages that need these shared libraries need only be modified with an extra -L to point to wherever you decide to store these libraries in /sw. This way everyone is happy. Those packages that need shared libraries will get them and everything else will remain binary compatible with mainline X11. Note that from what I have heard, KDE is not one of the packages that would need to depend on this shared library package. It only depends on them as an undesirable side-effect of revision 5 of the xfree86-base package. --Torrey _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
