On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:17:02PM -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:57 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:00:07AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > XSF, can we switch to using dlloader on alpha? Pleeaaaase? :) > > > > > > It does not make sense to do this for one architecture only. > > > > > > I'd suggest that until we move to dlloader wholesale, alpha joins hppa, > > > mips*, m68k, sh*, etc in using a static-only server. > > > > Are there any serious plans from upstream to move to dlloader after the > > modularization effort is done? > > X.org HEAD was switched to build dlloader by default a while ago, so > it'll be like that in 6.9/7.0. That said, I don't know if or how well > dlloader works on all the architectures, but I'd expect it to be more > portable than elfloader.
Ok, perhaps our best interests are served by getting 6.9/7.0 in to Debian as fast as possible once it's released. I'd rather spend energy on that than patching up 6.8 to make it a sorta-6.9. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

