[Fink-devel] X11 compatibilty problems

2003-01-12 Thread Martin Costabel
(Sorry for the long post, but IMHO this is serious) After fighting with some crashes becasue of undefined symbols and with xemacs compiling problems under Apple's new X11, I have come to a rather pessimistic conclusion about compatibility between different versions of X11. This concerns not

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 compatibilty problems

2003-01-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, My understanding is that the following upgrade path: XFree86-4.2 or Fink-4.2/ threaded-version / XFree86-4.3 or Fink-4.3 is expected to work just fine. However, as has become apparent this week, the libraries shipped by Apple are not binary compatible with other versions of the

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 compatibilty problems

2003-01-12 Thread Xavier HUMBERT
Dave : We can probably include a short list of Fink binaries which are known not to work with Apple's libraries. FWIW, I just installed nessus this afrenoon, with its dependancies (mainly openssl, libxml2, gtk) It compiles and runs without any problem. -- Xavier http://www.freetibet.org

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 compatibilty problems

2003-01-12 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 1:59 PM -0500 1/12/03, David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, My understanding is that the following upgrade path: XFree86-4.2 or Fink-4.2/ threaded-version / XFree86-4.3 or Fink-4.3 is expected to work just fine. Yes. This kind of problem is why I got bent out of shape awhile ago about Fink

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 compatibilty problems

2003-01-12 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, My understanding is that the following upgrade path: XFree86-4.2 or Fink-4.2/ threaded-version / XFree86-4.3 or Fink-4.3 is expected to work just fine. The upgrade from non-threaded 4.2 to threaded 4.3 is not completely innocent. I am sure I have seen a