Martin Bochnig wrote:
> p.s. Moinak, Alan: Is Xorg binary compatible to /usr/openwin/lib ? Or only on
> x86, but not yet on SPARC? Or 90% of libs yes, 10% no?
All the libraries we now deliver in /usr/X11/lib and left symlinks in
/usr/openwin/lib to are believed to be fully binary compatible. (We
don't have complete test suites for all of them, but based on the code,
we think it's reasonably safe to call them compatible.) This is part
of why it's taken us so long to move the Nevada implementations over to
the current X.Org upstreams as we check this, and where necessary apply
patches to our builds.
Off the top of my head, the one big library we know is still incompatible
between what's delivered in /usr/openwin/lib and what you get from
building the FOX gate is libXaw. (This is greatly improved from when the
FOX gate started last year, and critical libraries like libX11 & libXext
were not binary compatible.)
As far as binary compatibility goes, there should be no difference
between SPARC & x86.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
