Nicholas,
I really don't know what to do here. Perhaps some others know what to do and whether or not this is a good idea.
Would it be easier to update to 4.3.0? Have we already made Xt a shared lib in 4.3.0?
On a side note, has anyone been seeing signs of when 4.4.0 is going to be released? I noticed that they just tagged 4.3.99.9, so maybe it would be better to wait an release 4.4.0 when it is ready instead.
Any thoughts?
Hi Harold,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. Alexander makes an excellent argument for something I did not entirely considier, a broken import table. So your proposal to move to 4.3+ sounds like a plan to me. Perhaps a strictly "testing" release of 4.3.99.9 might be in order? If what you say is true, it is highly doubtful that they would be making serious incompatible interface changes so late in the game. Something I forgot to mention was the whole problem with makedpend which, for lack of vision, insists on hardcoding the system include paths (which screws people who have a different version of gcc from the one used to compile X). If anything, this needs to be configurable in a global config file or during runtime it should call the compiler to learn the proper include paths. I was planning on filing a bug report for this, if it hadn't already been fixed upstream.
Cheers, Nicholas
