The lesstif discussion reminded me that I should point out some important changes that are coming soon for XFree86. The XonX project will be releasing a bug fix update soonish to XFree86 from the 4.2 branch. In addition to fixing a few crashing bugs and adding Jaguar compatibility, it will also revert libXt to a flat-namespace image. When this becomes available, you will likely want to move the Fink distribution to using it.
After having some time to look at this issue in more detail it is clear that libXt will never work properly with two-level namespace binding semantics. The Fink approach of using -force_flat_namespace will continue to work, but it will not be needed after the update. Keeping libXt as a two-level namespace image forced every application that used libXt to link _all_ their libraries as flat namespace images, even though only libXt needs it. In addition it became obvious that there were subtle problems in applications that used libXt without -force_flat_namespace, even if they did not fail as dramatically as lesstif. I think that only libXt consistently relies on the kind of binding semantics that make two-level namespace a problem, but please let me know if you think there are other X libraries that might need to be make flat. Hopefully when XFree86 4.3 release gets close we can move Fink's unstable XFree86 package to using the release candidate libraries so we don't have another surprise like the libXt-lesstif problem. --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
