Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:32:54 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: re: libXExExt Message-ID: <19970909143254.52297@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970909091022.09328@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 09:10:22AM %2B0930 References: <199709081323.JAA01794@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> <19970909091022.09328@lemis.com>
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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 09:10:22AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:23:18AM -0400, Brian McGovern wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 01:18:19PM -0400, Brian McGovern wrote: >>>> Where can I find this library. >> >>> This looks like a typo to me, but I can't decide whether it's yours or >>> something that got included in your system. In any case, it's almost >>> certainly looking for libXext.<mumble>. It should be in >>> /usr/X11R6/lib. >> >> It appears to be a brain seize in the ports, then. fvwm wants it, >> ddd wanted it... I've tried others, but don't remember what they were at >> the moment. I linked libXext.<mumble> to libXExExt.<mumble>, and all is >> now working fine. The ports set I'm working with was last weeks (round >> about 9/4 or so) ports-current. > >Thanks for that. I had more or less written this off as lack of >knowledge on my part. Or is there really a libXExExt? libXExExt existed in some earlier XFree86 releases (I think 3.1.2 was the last release to include it). It was a bad idea, but unfortunately it wasn't realised just how bad until some time after it had been released. Having said that, if an Imakefile is referring to it directly, the Imakefile is broken (the fvwm 1.x Imakefile is *VERY* broken -- which I discovered when building it for Solaris 2.5.1/X11R6.3). If you have an auto-generated Makefile that refers to it, maybe it is out of date, or your imake config files are old. If you have such a Makefile that is not auto-generated, then it isn't portable when it comes to building X11 applications. This shouldn't be a run-time issue since I don't think we (XFree86) made the mistake of ever building a shared libXExExt (which would have made the bad idea even worse). David
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