Rxvt new XFree [was Re: 'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages -breaks all 3rd party X apps]

2003-08-03 Thread Nicholas Wourms 
David A. Case wrote:

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

No.  Older X apps will need to be recompiled for 4.3.0.  This is a 
change that needed to happen.  In the meantime, you can keep the old 
DLLs in the same directory and it will allow older X apps to run side by 
side with new X apps.


One of the most common older apps that needs to be recompiled is rxvt.
This seems to be a packaging issue: what is the best way for setup to (help)
ensure that people upgrading to the new Xfree86 version get a re-compiled
rxvt as well?
Of course, in principle, rxvt is no different from other X programs that are
not updated when Xfree86 is updated, but I think it is very widely used,
and hence likely to trip almost everyone up when it stops working after they
update the X packages.
Well then, Steve's probably the one to talk to regarding this.  I 
believe the problem is that rxvt isn't actually linked to any 
Cygwin/XFree86 libs, since it uses its own hybrid emulation lib, libW11. 
 I'll let Steve comment on the specifics involved, but I believe that 
libW11 will need updating to match current libX11 api differences.  I 
wonder if Donald Becker has updated the sources yet?

Cheers,
Nicholas

Re: 'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages - breaks all 3rd party X apps

2003-08-02 Thread David A. Case 
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
 
 No.  Older X apps will need to be recompiled for 4.3.0.  This is a 
 change that needed to happen.  In the meantime, you can keep the old 
 DLLs in the same directory and it will allow older X apps to run side by 
 side with new X apps.

One of the most common older apps that needs to be recompiled is rxvt.
This seems to be a packaging issue: what is the best way for setup to (help)
ensure that people upgrading to the new Xfree86 version get a re-compiled
rxvt as well?

Of course, in principle, rxvt is no different from other X programs that are
not updated when Xfree86 is updated, but I think it is very widely used,
and hence likely to trip almost everyone up when it stops working after they
update the X packages.

..dave case

'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages - breaks all 3rd party X apps

2003-08-01 Thread Ton van Overbeek 
In the 4.3.0-1 packages all dll's are named cygxxx-n.dll instead of
libxxx.dll. All 3rd party apps look for e.g. libX11.dll, libICE.dll etc.
For now the only workaround is to copy each cygxxx-n.dll to
the corresponding libxxx.dll in  /usr/X11R6/bin.
Harold, could you please issue a 4.3.0-2 version with the 'right' dll
names?

Ton van Overbeek

Re: 'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages - breaks all 3rd party X apps

2003-08-01 Thread Christopher Faylor 
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:58:46AM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
In the 4.3.0-1 packages all dll's are named cygxxx-n.dll instead of
libxxx.dll. All 3rd party apps look for e.g. libX11.dll, libICE.dll etc.

That's interesting.  What third party apps would be specifically linking
to cygwin-xfree DLLs?

cgf