On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 14:52, M.G. Houtman wrote:

> Before Xfree 4.1.0, I always used the DRI CVS version for Xfree,
> 'cause it had the latest and (nearly always) the best drivers. Since
> 4.1.0 the standard  sources contain the latest DRI sources, so I
> installed that version.
> 
> Normally, DRI comes with libXv.a and libXv.so, thus a statically and a 
> dynamic version.

Not unless you explicitly #define SharedLibXv YES .

> Yet the latest 4.1.0 binraies come with only libXv.a.

That's how XFree86 intends it to be. The pros and cons of this are
currently being discussed on the Xpert list.


> During the xine configure, i do get a good message:
> 
> checking for XvShmCreateImage in -lXv... yes
> checking for libXv.a location... found in /usr/X11R6/lib
> 
> -lXv is the .so lib, correct me if I am wrong. How can it find it if it's not 
> there?

It will use the static library if it doesn't find a shared one.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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