From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 29 00:51:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA25465 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA25434 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:51:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA02750 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:50:59 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA26104 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:50:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA29529 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:49:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603290849.JAA29529@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: We need to do another XFree86 release for -current someday soon.. To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:49:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <26399.828045200@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 28, 96 12:33:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The problem is simple: xf86config (and much of the rest of X) is still > looking for libc.so.2.2, among perhaps other things. We've still no > "2.1compat" distribution, so I decided to let this one ride as most We should have one. IMNSHO, this is more important than an updated version of XFree86. The problem with XFree86 is that it would be a bit unfair to release their 3.1.2 right now, simply relinked against the new libc. They have done a *huge* amount of work in their latest betas, many graphics boards that didn't work erlier do now, so giving out a rather old version but pretend it were a new one isn't quite right. Alas, XFree86 is still not yet ready for a new release, all you can get by now are betas (and it doesn't make any sense to put them on a CD -- the beta servers have an expiration date that's probably over before the CD ships). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)