Once I can successfully get a static build going on RHEL 4 (still having problems with the lack of gnutls_transport_set_global_errno), I'll look into these issues. libgcrypt and libgnutls are definitely not cross-compatible, so the -static switch to build-xorg will probably have to accommodate those libs as well as the others.
I'm hoping that the new Xorg 7.5 patches you just checked in will eliminate the build issue I had previously that was preventing me from using Xorg 7.5. If so, I will generate a static Xvnc binary and look into linking statically with gnutls. I then want to try out the security features to make sure they behave like I expect, and I'll be cool with releasing the alpha at that point. What is the situation with respect to doing Windows builds? I have never successfully managed to build WinVNC. Did those patches ever make it into a release of MinGW? On 9/15/10 9:06 AM, Adam Tkac wrote: > Hello, > > as you might have seen I performed build-xorg improvements > and it is now possible to build Xvnc via those scripts. In my opinion > prebuilt Xvnc will be built with this script so it's good time to > discuss remaining issues. > > "Statically" linked Xvnc now contains references for following > libraries: > > $ readelf -a ./Xvnc |grep NEEDE > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpam.so.0] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libgnutls.so.26] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libgcrypt.so.11] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libdl.so.2] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [librt.so.1] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: > [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpthread.so.0] > > Everything except libgnutls.so.26 is present on old systems (i.e. RHEL4 & > friends) > so we must decide what to do with libgnutls. Although I'm not friend > of static linking it seems we have to link Xvnc statically against > libgnutls to avoid compatibility issues. > > I also created two patches which add -dridir and -xkbcompdir > parameters to Xvnc. Those parameters should be determined same way as > -fp parameter in vncserver script and passed to Xvnc. > > After vncserver gets improved UNIX code is ready for the alpha > release, in my opinion. > > Regards, Adam > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
