[csw-maintainers] Which x11 library to choose?

Roger Håkansson hson at opencsw.org
Fri Mar 12 12:49:52 CET 2010


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.


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