[csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 19.03.2010 um 19:20 schrieb Philip Brown:
> Soooo.. James uncovered some bad news on the CSW X11 front.
>
> Graphically speaking, we have been integrating with sun's OpenGL
> library, libGL.so, for hardware-accelerated graphics.
>
> Trouble is... Sun's libGL.so, requires "libX11.so.4". even in  
> solaris 10.
>
> Whereas our newer libX11, is libX11.so.6.
>
> That means, stuff that we compile against the nice new shiney X11,
> cannot use (sun provided) hardware 3d accel .
>
> The good news is, there are precious few packages that truely *need*  
> 3d accel.
>
> The bad news is, its still going to be "less shiney" in some areas.
>
> ones that would directly benefit from hardware 3d in common usage (I
> may have missed some but these are bad enough):
>
> xscreensaver
> xlockmore
> flightgear
> bzflag
> quake2
> neverball
> (radiance?)
> criticalmass
> armagetron
> tuxkart
> rsxs
> stellarium
> kicad
> gl117
> #The following are "only" 3d libraries/toolkits
> fox
> plib
> freeglut
> kdegraphics_gcc
> wxwidgets_gtk2
>
> More "good" news, is that many of them dont need the new CSW X11, so
> there is no direct conflict. But those ones that use gtk, either
> directly, or INDIRECTLY, potentially have a problem.

Ugh. Does that mean we need double libraries: one in lib/ bound
against Sun X11 and one in X11/lib bound against CSW X11 and the
apps go to decide?


Best regards

   -- Dago