Re: SL's X11 (X11-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 177)
Re: SL's X11 (X11-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 177)
- Subject: Re: SL's X11 (X11-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 177)
- From: "William G. Scott" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:21:25 -0700
On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Aug 28, 2009, at 16:52, William G. Scott wrote:
Hi Jeremy:
Thanks.
I just replaced the SL /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib with the
one I had from an X11-2.4.0 install on another computer and it
solved at least this problem.
Well, if you have problems, I'm not going to go out of my way to
support that. I'm sure the fink people are suggesting you recompile
everything after upgrading...
They haven't, yet. It would be a pity to do this based on one
library's compatibility version. One of the issues is the binary
distribution. Many of the maintainers, including me, have invested a
lot of time and effort getting ready for a smooth transition to 10.6
(and to 64-bit), and have been using the assumption that X11 2.4.0 or
greater would be available to 10.6 users.
Fink links to the XQuartz Update Page, and although it doesn't
explicitly say to update to 2.4.0, it does suggest staying up to date,
which means that many users will be keeping up to date.
Also, distributors of pre-compiled software have linked to the latest
X11 libraries, and have instructions to install X11 from the Xquartz
update page. All of these would also have to be recompiled to link to
the earlier library.
just like with MacPorts... so I'd recommend that route rather than
trying to copy files from other systems...
I certainly wasn't suggesting that as a general fix, but only a proof
of principle that a minimal change allowed me to recover from the 10.6
upgrade.
Fink used to give the users the option of installing its own X11,
but I thought they got talked out of it by Apple for 10.5.
Uhm... that's plain not true.
They did in fact have an X11 install option prior to 10.5. It is
still documented in various places on the web pages, eg:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/xorg
I guess I have a different idea of what "robust" is.
Being able to have the same set of libraries used as
dependencies ... ie, gtk linking against the same version of libX11
regardless of which version the OS is... that seems better to me.
Then why release a new library in X11.app 2.4.0 and then regress for
10.6?
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