It seems Max Hork answered the same question on the fink-beginners
mailing list. Here's his response to the embedded query:
To: Andreas Gschwendtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fink-Beginners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Different downloads at XFree86
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:23:48 +0100
At 17:12 Uhr -0600 17.03.2002, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote:
>Hi,
[...snip...]
>I realized, that there are _two_ downloads available, one at:
>
>ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/Darwin-ppc-5.x/
Take that one if you use OS X 10.1.1 or newer.
>and on at:
>
>ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/Darwin-ppc-1.x/
>(which seems to be newer...).
Yeah, they created it later, after discovering Apple broke binary
compatibility (probably by accident) with some stuff they used in OS
X 10.1. Use this if you use OS X 10.0.4 or older.
>
>Which is the best to choose? What are the differences? I couldn't find the
>answers to those questions in the release notes nor an www.xfree86.org,
>that's why I'm posting it here... Maybe somebody can enlighten me -- help
>would be appreciated.
HTH,
Max
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