Re: Tiger X11 on Leopard
Re: Tiger X11 on Leopard
- Subject: Re: Tiger X11 on Leopard
- From: Ronald Cohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:23:28 -0700
Ben, thank you for taking the time to answer all of these emails AND
to distribute patches. It is nice to know that the relevant person
at Apple is tuned into a list like this and cares. I hope Apple
gives you a nice bonus for your contributions to customer
satisfaction : - ) .
On Oct 31, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Ben Byer wrote:
Trying to answer several questions at once:
On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Sherry Packard wrote:
I'm trying to revert to Tiger's X11 on my Leopard environment
using the instructions found on:
http://aaroniba.net/articles/x11-leopard.html
I've completed all of the steps, but when I try to launch X11 it
starts to launch and then fails. In the console window, I see the
following:
10/31/07 7:44:56 AM [0x0-0x23023].org.x.X11_launcher[329] dyld:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libXau.6.dylib
Both the fact that it calls itself "org.x.X11_launcher" and the
fact that it refers to "/usr/X11/lib" means that /Applications/
Utilities/X11.app means that (for some reason) that X11.app bundle
is still the one from Leopard. (On Tiger, X11.app calls itself
"com.apple.x11" and looks for libraries in "/usr/X11R6/lib".) So,
if you still want to go that route, I recommend you try renaming
X11.app to X11-old.app, and then repeat your steps to install
Tiger's X11.app.
On Oct 31, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Sherry Packard wrote:
OK, I know this is probably a dumb question, but I'm not an X11
guru... We just install the Xquartz binary file, right? Do I need
to worry about the source tarball?
Not a dumb question -- I'm putting these releases out for two
reasons:
1. To encourage developers to build the source themselves, and help
me find / fix bugs
2. To provide users with a "better" X11 to use while they are
waiting for official fix from Apple (read: Software Update)
Unless you want to participate in #1, you can stick with #2.
Virtually all of the real guts of X11.app are in that one file -- /
usr/X11/bin/Xquartz -- so it's the file I will be distributing
updates for.
On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Ronald Cohen wrote:
If we install Ben's update -- will this interfere with a future
official update thru Software Update?
It should not since only one binary is changed and it looks the
same. If you fallow the instructions you can just copy the old
version back very easily if it does cause problems with a software
update.
As I understand it, this is correct -- the Xquartz binary will be
overwritten with the version from Software Update. Should this
turn out to not be the case, I'll provide plenty of advance notice
on this list.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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