[csw-maintainers] RFD: X11 linkage problem strategy

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

>> 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.
>

Errr.. but it needs to only be for things that definately need "our"
x11 libs. it cant be the "always default" !