[csw-maintainers] RFD: X11 linkage problem strategy

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 09.11.2009 um 18:30 schrieb Philip Brown:
> I think it would be best if you did some research, and laid out just
> how many "intermediate libraries" we are talking about, and just how
> many packages would USE these retro-compiled packages.
>
> Depending on the number of affected packages, other options for
> affected packages might be:
>
> a) use solaris-shipped libs entirely (arent they available for sol8?)
> b) use static compiled versions of small libs, if number of affected
> packages is only a handful.
>
> OR, possibly still have the old way. but there is an issue of which
> version of libgif "belongs" in /opt/csw/lib.
>
> Probably the normal one I suppose, if we mandate that anything using
> /opt/csw/X11/lib must have that FIRST in its RPATH.

That may be the ultimate solution: Just make sure that
   /opt/csw/X11/lib
is in front of RPATH. That way the CSW x11 libs get always linked first,
thus solving the mixed openwin/libX11 + csw/libXext issue. Doing more
testing now... If it works I can easily add a permanent switch in GAR.


Best regards

   -- Dago