On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, David Dawes wrote: >>even after the recent changes to XFree86-current "libGLw", "libXau" and >>"libXdmcp" are still not built shared. I've got a report that this >>causes problem with certain 3rd party applications which try to build >>shared objects using these libraries. >> >>So may I ask what is the reason that these libraries are not built shared? > >I'm not sure about the reasons for libGLw. > >The other two can be built shared providing that the build is setup so >that the static versions are always built too, and the X servers (at >least) continue to link against the static versions. Linking the X >servers against shared versions can be re-examined if necessary after >4.4 is out.
I think one of the fixes I've got here for 4.3.0 might resolve this for libXau, and some other libs. We experienced a problem where shared libs trying to link to static libs caused application failures due to non-PIC code being used. I'll have to have a look at this soon and port forward to HEAD if need be, and send a patch in. Not 100% sure that our problem is identical to this one though. TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
