Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:55:37 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> To: "Eugene M. Kim" <gene@nttlabs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libX11.so version in bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <199809160555.NAA14822@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:49:37 MST." <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809152140130.6094-100000@seera.nttlabs.com>
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> Hello,
>
> According to the bump-up-the-version rule, libX11 in my XFree86 port now
> has the version of 7. Unfortunately bsd.port.mk expects libX11.so.6 if
> USE_XLIB is defined (see around line 530 in bsd.port.mk) and this
> renders all X11 ports unusable with the new XFree86 port.
>
> Shall I go back to libX11.so.6? I'm confused.
>
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I'd rather you didn't bump libX11's version number to 7 - the alpha xfree86
code uses 6 by default, which matches X11R*6*. Indeed, they try to keep the
major.minor pair matching the release number of X.
Stephen
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