Hey, folks. As some of you may know, XQuartz decided to change how the default libXt is built on XQuartz 2.7.9, (from flat namespace to two-level namespace) which resulted in us having to modify the builds of openmotif and its reverse-dependencies, and also resulting in breakage for packages that use libXaw3d if that library and the user-package are built with different namespace options.
Unfortunately, for 2.7.10, they’re making more changes, such that the flat-namespace libXt is now effectively unusable for new builds. We’re going to provide a package for that (currently under evaluation), with a private libXt. (please correct me if I’ve misstated anything) We’re in discussion about how best to handle the two-level libXt. The options seem to be: 1) Use a private two-level libXt library. The downside to this is that it means packages that use libXaw3d will require perpetual tweaking to use that. 2) Use a public two-level libXt, e.g.. have the headers and libraries in standard Fink locations. The downside here is that enforcement of using our library rather than X11’s won’t be as automatic as using a private library. 3) Use a versioned XQuartz dependency. A couple downsides here are: we don’t currently track the aggregate Xquartz version, but only the versions of some of the components—and the libXt version information that we have (based on the version in its .pc file) *didn’t* change with the change on Xquartz 2.7.9; also, we’re going to want to wait until 2.7.10 is out (probably)—I don’t want to rely on pre-releases. Anyway, we need _some_ way to have motif-users and xaw3d-users build and run reliably, so any community feedback on this would be welcome. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
