Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > > So X402 will be in woody sometime soon (perhaps the next version) ? > > > > > I was told that no. > > > > > > > > It should be as soon as m68k will build the package, don't know what > > > > the problem is, maybe there are build problems on m68k, or maybe it > > > > takes just time.
BTW this topic is outdated; Anthony announced yesterday that X4 is in testing now. > > >From what I hear, the module loader needs some m68k fixes. > > > > But that is upstream work, not debian ? isn't it ? > > > > What about making a static server binary in the meantime ? Christian tried to build a static server, but it didn't work for some reason. > > (Including only the driver that make sense on m68k naturally ...) > > Alternatively: would it be possible to hack a quick layer between the > XFree86 module loader system and the standard dl* system we already have? > > XFRee86 mainly wrote their own system to work around bugs in dl* systems on > non-Linux OSses, which is something we don't have to care about. That's not the whole truth. The XFree86 module loader allows for platform independence. Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
