[csw-maintainers] Which x11 library to choose?

[Roger Håkansson]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Am 12.03.2010 um 15:22 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> Hi Roger,
>>> Am 12.03.2010 um 12:49 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>>>> On 2010-03-12 11:07, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Otherwise we end up with the same problem as we have right now, some
>>>>>> packages are linked with Sun X11 and some with OpenCSW X11 and 
>>>>>> when creating
>>>>>> a package which is linked to libraries from both categories we get 
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> trouble.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this an example of what you were talking about?
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ldd -r /opt/csw/bin/awesome | grep libX11
>>>>>        libX11.so.6 =>    /opt/csw/X11/lib/libX11.so.6
>>>>>        libX11.so.4 =>    /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
>>>>
>>>> What I meant was that it takes a lot of time for the maintainers to 
>>>> try to work around the various link-errors you get.
>>>> But also, such a binary isn't guaranteed to work at all.
>>> Ok, that means we should identify the libraries linked to Sun X11 and
>>> rebuild them instead of working around anything, right?
>>
>> That's my recommendation, yes
> 
> I set up a project page to track progress:
>   <http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-x11>
> Please add what you see fit.

I've added the stuff that I could find on the buildfarm using nm and 
dump. But since the buildfarm doesn't have all packages installed I 
guess there might be some that are missing since the list you get when 
searching for libX11.so.4 on www.opencsw.org is a lot larger...