On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:18:11AM -0500, DRC wrote:
> I don't see this as something we have to "support" in the sense of
> shipping binaries based on it.  It's more for developers who need to
> build on systems that have Xorg 1.1.  Can't you just #ifdef around the
> offending code?

You could try it but it won't work.

> However, I also am OK with using build-xorg-git, if it can be made to
> work with Xorg 1.5.

Yes, I discussed this solution with Pierre on IRC and it will be the
preferred solution. I'm working on it.

> Adam Tkac wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:15:40AM -0500, DRC wrote:
> >   
> >> I checked in a patch which seems to allow me to build Xvnc on RHEL 5
> >> using the Xorg server 1.1 branch.  Using this patch, I do:
> >>     
> >
> > Hm, I think more about this issue and in the end it seems that older
> > releases of Xorg are not so good idea. Main problem is that they are
> > unmaintained and might contain serious bugs. Thus we should definitely
> > not ship Xvnc which is based on old Xorg branch.
> >
> > More wise solution might be to use XFree86 source, I think (I saw they
> > released 4.8.0 12/15/2008). Let me check how big pain will be port
> > xvnc.cc to XFree86 4.8.0.

OK, after check XFree86 is definitely not a case.

Adam

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