Re: -rpath not used under Linux

2004-01-23 Thread Bernd Ernesti
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:23:38PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: [glibc search order] > That possibly means that we should be removing -rpath from other platforms > rather than adding it on Linux. No, please don't do that. On NetBSD you can't use LD_LIBRARY_PATH for setuid or setgid programs and /usr

Concerned by Security?

2004-01-23 Thread Sean Hall
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Re: PFNGLXGETUSTPROC argument signed or unsigned?

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:50:29PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: >David Dawes wrote: > >> What is the correct typedef for PFNGLXGETUSTPROC? glxclient.h has: >> >> typedef int (* PFNGLXGETUSTPROC) ( int64_t * ust ); >> >> and it is used as a signed quantity in glxcmds.c. >> >> But most drivers use

Re: Files with wrong exec bits set

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:43:13AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >Marc Aurele La France wrote (in a message from Wednesday 21) > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, David Dawes wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:46:25PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote: > > > > > >There are a lot of source files that have

Re: Files with wrong exec bits set

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:23:46PM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote: >On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, David Dawes wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:46:25PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote: > >> >There are a lot of source files that have wrong exec bits set in the >> >repository. Although this is not a prob

Re: -rpath not used under Linux

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:43:02PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: >> So long as ld.so.conf overrides the rpath (does it?) then this won't >> matter. LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD won't work for setuid apps. > >It doesn't. >Searching for l

Re: -rpath not used under Linux

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:19:45AM -0800, Craig Groeschel wrote: >> Does anyone have a good reason to not do this? > >I seem to remember an "rpath considered harmful" message from >around the time the libraries changed from R5 to R6. The >author said to use rpath-link instead of rpath. I don't kn

Re: -rpath not used under Linux

2004-01-23 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:43:02PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: > So long as ld.so.conf overrides the rpath (does it?) then this won't > matter. LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD won't work for setuid apps. It doesn't. Searching for libraries is done in glibc the following order: DT_RPATH directories (

Re: -rpath not used under Linux

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:34:17PM +0100, Gian Filippo Pinzari wrote: >David Dawes wrote: >> I don't have any objections to doing this on Linux. As I said, we >> already do it on a range of other platforms and I'm not sure why >> Linux is something of an exception in this regard. Does anyone >> h

Re: CVS XFree (savage driver) xsuite failures

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:06:50PM +0600, Ivan Pascal wrote: > Hello, > >Mark Vojkovich wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, David Dawes wrote: >> >> > >Tests for XChangeKeyboardControl >> > >Test 9: FAIL >> > >Test 10: FAIL >> > >> > That has been showing up for a while. It should be followed u

Re: [Dri-devel] MGA font corruption revisited - now reproducible

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:28:27PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:53:06PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: >> > >> >Someone needs to track down the bug that causes a server crash and >> >subsequent lockup if a dualhead config is used but mga_hal is not >> >available (either not

Re: I would like to join the developer's list.

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
"devel" is the principle development list for XFree86, but I suspect that most 3D developement discussion takes place on the DRI project's lists. Mark. On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Brad Arant wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Linux developer and have actively been involved with the XFree X

XFree86 and X.Org

2004-01-23 Thread David Dawes
There are various news items going around claiming that X.Org and The XFree86 Project have joined together as a single group. This is 100% untrue. The XFree86 Project remains as an independent organisation, both legally and operationally, and has not even considered combining with X.Org, let alon

Re: I would like to join the developer's list.

2004-01-23 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Brad Arant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Linux developer and have actively been involved with the XFree > X > Windowing System. Would like to be a part of the developer's list and > was > wondering where the newsgroups and other conversations are actively > taking > place. de

Re: Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:51:24AM -0500, Michael Taylor wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Michael Taylor wrote: > > >>I don't understand the Debian policy but it would be nice if at least 4.3.0 was > >>included in their release of sarge as stable next month

Re: Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Taylor
Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Michael Taylor wrote: >>I don't understand the Debian policy but it would be nice if at least 4.3.0 was >>included in their release of sarge as stable next month. > > > A debian/sarge release next month would most assuredly be premat

Re: Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anyway, what's this user's easiest path to 4.3? > Install the experimental package (if he runs sarge or unstable already), > if he runs woody, the best guess would be Michel Daenzer's dri-trunk > packages : > # Michel's DRI packages > deb http://pe

Mouse grabbing

2004-01-23 Thread Rychkov, Alexey
Hello. There is such task: I need to grab all mouse and keyboard events on some screen, do something after each event, and generate that events back to applications. I try to do it like follows: At first I grab mouse, remove first event from the queue, (here I must do smth.), ungrab the pointe

Re: previously cannot find -lfl now cannot find -ltermcap

2004-01-23 Thread jassi brar
simply get the corresponding libtermcap for ur arch and put it in proper lib dir in ur LD_LIBRARY_PATH -Jassi On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote : >Dear Friends, > >I build Xfree86 TinyX for new architecture Abacus, >Now I am facing problem while installing(make install) > >I requ

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Re: previously cannot find -lfl now cannot find -ltermcap

2004-01-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote: > I think termcap should be ported. I am using > uClibc-0.9.19 termcap (or ncurses) would be one of your system libraries, and is not part of XFree86. > I didn't faced any problem during compilation. > > why Xfree86 never prompted f

previously cannot find -lfl now cannot find -ltermcap

2004-01-23 Thread Suresh Chandra Mannava
Dear Friends, I build Xfree86 TinyX for new architecture Abacus, Now I am facing problem while installing(make install) I request your help on the following problem. privously 'make install' failed telling 'cannot find -lfl' I ported flex and cleared that problem Now install failed /usr/abacu

Re: Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:00:35PM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Michael Taylor wrote: > > > Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > > This came up while helping some clueless Windows exile(e): > > > > So, how come Debian "stable" is still at XFree86 4.1? > > > Because that

Re: Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Michael Taylor wrote: > Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > This came up while helping some clueless Windows exile(e): > > > > So, how come Debian "stable" is still at XFree86 4.1? > > Because that is what they had in 'testing' when they released Debian 3.0r

I would like to join the developer's list.

2004-01-23 Thread Brad Arant
Hello, I am a Linux developer and have actively been involved with the XFree X Windowing System. Would like to be a part of the developer's list and was wondering where the newsgroups and other conversations are actively taking place. Let me know what I can do for you. __

Re: cannot find -lfl

2004-01-23 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote (in a message from Friday 23) > Dear Friends, > > I am encountering the following error while Installing > the build of XFree86 TinyX. > I cross compiled X with Abacus compiler (India build > processor) > > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/suresh/xfree/b