Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v5 now available; 4.1.0-1 imminent

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Branden Robinson wrote:

> The latest prerelease of 4.1.0 .debs is now available at the X Strike
> Force repository (see the URL in my .sig).
Great!  I tried to build -0pre1v4 on ARM, but it failed; build log at 
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/xfree86_4.1.0-0pre1v4.log .  I'll try 
-0pre1v5, but it'll take a few hours. :-)

> I plan to release 4.1.0-1 as soon as XFree86 upstream has resolved the
> issue with missing PIC symbols in unshared objects on some architectures,
> or once we have a workaround that doesn't break other things (like the X
> server's module loader, which cannot handle PIC information).
Cool.

Zeen,
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