Re: Fix for XFree86

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>]

After a break of many days, today I got sometime to work on Xfree again.  I applied your patch
and it fixed a all the problems you mentioned.  It also fixed those "annoying warnings" of
"not in .../../."  your fixes should appear soon in the next snapshot of code for X-server.

Thanks.

Suhaib

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Takayuki Tamura <ttamura@icc.melco.co.jp>
To: <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.com>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: Fix for XFree86


> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 07:25:58 -0400
> "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com> wrote:
> 
> > > I think it's not necessary to have libX11.dll in /usr/X11R6.3/bin.
> > > As I wrote, it should be found in xc/exports/bin, as libX11.a in
> > > xc/exports/lib.
> > 
> > During compilation, DLLs are not moved to xc/exports/libs.
> 
> My patch changes this situation :-)
> (DLLs should be in xc/exports/bin, from which some programs are launched.)
> 
> > The Makefiles contains -L/usr/X11R6.3/lib.
> 
> And also -L../../exports/lib, which has precedence over -L/usr/X11R6.3/lib.
> See LDPRELIBS and LDPOSTLIBS in Makefile.
> 
> > If you want to have DLLs in export/lib directory, you can move
> > them manually??
> 
> No!
> Currently, whenever libfoo.dll is built, libfoo.a is also built and
> linked to xc/exports/lib automagically.
> We need a little more hack to add.
> 
> > > If the platform supports true static linking, the generated binary
> > > can run in its own right.
> > 
> > Theoretically yes.  But X11 system is based up shared libraries (i.e. *.so), right?  
> > 
> > > However, in cygwin, libX11.a is only a placeholder, meaning that
> > > the generated binary still requires libX11.dll to run.
> > > 
> > 
> > Same applied to UNIX too.  On UNIX you need libX11.so, instead of DLLs, am I right?
> 
> Agreed.
> So the other platforms, I think, require similar hack to handle this,
> possibly LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick, because I compiled XFree86 on FreeBSD
> without preinstalled libraries.
> (I will investigate it later.)
> 
> > I feel good about it :-)  Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I don't mean to stick to this problem any more, because our primary goal
> is to obtain a free X server, not a whole XFree86 stuff.
> Let's revisit the problem when we are ready to discuss the packaging
> issue (only if source distribution is important) :-)
> 
> Regards,
> ---------------
> Takayuki TAMURA (ttathome@remus.dti.ne.jp)
>