> On Oct 22, 2016, at 21:17, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2016, at 12:22, RenĂ© J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Saturday October 22 2016 12:00:37 [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>>> A flat_namespace version of libXt is available in
>>> /opt/X11/lib/flat_namespace to help ease the transition (#96292) Set
>>> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/flat_namespace when executing older
>>> non-compliant software (eg: Motif-based applications)
>> 
>> Does this mean that anything linking to libXt.6 has to be rebuilt?
> 
> No.
> 
>> If I'm not mistaken it would have been possible to install the libXt.6 
>> 2-level runtime library with a slightly different name, point the link 
>> library libXt.dylib to that new version, and maintain the flat libXt.6.dylib 
>> with its old name so that preexisting binaries continue(d) to work. If 
>> correct, why has that approach not been taken?
> 
> It was.  That's what we did in 2.7.9.  See the referenced ticket 
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96292) and threads on x11-users 
> and xquartz-dev for reasons why that failed.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 

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