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XFree86-base no longer depends on XFree86-lib-compat


XFree86-lib-compat (provides old 4.2.0 libraries for compatibility with applications that have not been recompiled in almost a year) has been removed as a dependency of XFree86-base.

This means that XFree86-lib-compat will no longer be installed in a default Cygwin/X installation.

If you maintain any Cygwin/X packages that depend on the libraries in XFree86-lib-compat please recompile your application ASAP against the new libraries in the 4.3.0 releases. The XFree86-lib-compat package will be removed from the distribution when the next major release of Cygwin/X is made (within three months, possibly as soon as a month).

In the mean time, if an application complains that it cannot find libX11-6.dll (or lib*-?.dll), then install the XFree86-lib-compat package and see if that fixes the problem. If it does, notify the maintainer of the package in question that they should recompile their package against recent X libraries. If it does not fix the problem, then your trouble lies elsewhere.

Harold


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