On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote:

> 
> On 07.01.2011, at 13:27, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
> 
>> On 07.01.2011 10:38, Matthias Melcher wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't know much about X11 and much less about Xinerama, but I tried to 
>>> get the DPI code running on X yesterday, and all my virtual machines (3 
>>> Linux variants) fell back to X11 (no Xinerama). After investigating a 
>>> little more, I found that there is no libXinerama.so, but there are 
>>> libXinerama.1.so and libXinerama.1.0.so or similar.
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't there be a symbolic link? Or is that only generated if one 
>>> actually has multiple displays?
>> 
>> I have on Linux (Ubuntu 9.x), in a Virtualbox VM:
>> 
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ... /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 -> libXinerama.so.1.0.0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ... /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
>> 
>> ... and on Cygwin (Windows 7):
>> 
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ... /usr/lib/libXinerama.a
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ... /usr/lib/libXinerama.dll.a*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ... /usr/lib/libXinerama.la*
>> 
>> I know the latter is not relevant here, but anyway. Configure finds
>> Xinerama only on my Cygwin system, but not on Linux. I don't know
>> whether it depends on the (missing?) link or maybe missing headers,
>> though.
> 
> Yes, after more investigation, I found that the headers were missing too (or 
> in other locations, containing other functions...). "configure" seems to be 
> correct then.
> 
>>> And even though "configure" has not found Xinerama, it is still listed in 
>>> the summary of the script. That can't be good?
>> 
>> That's probably only a wrong display in configure and harmless.
>> I just verified that HAVE_XINERAMA is set correctly in config.h
>> (always #define'd, but with 0 or 1, resp.).
>> 
>> BTW.: I'm just fixing a bug WRT Xinerama and dpi for Cygwin/X11 or
>> maybe generally for X11: As it is on my system, configure finds
>> Xinerama, but it is not active with my X server configuration,
>> i.e. XineramaIsActive(fl_display) returns false... Please don't
>> submit RC3 before this is committed.
> 
> No, I'll wait until tonight (probably 2100 CET). We will still need another 
> RC with the new jpeg, png, and z lib.

FWIW, I have the JPEG changes almost ready to go - just need to finish updating 
the IDE project files with the changes to the JPEG sources. ZLIB and PNG to 
follow this weekend...

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