Re: Suggestions on XFree86, KDE, sawfish builds
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:24:51PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> I'm (relatively) new to watching the Debian effort, but I've a few simple
> suggestions for those involved in building these packages in the
> testing/unstable trees. These are based on some discrepancies I've found in
> how I have traditionally built them from source. Perhaps someone else can
> share some thoughts on these issues?
>
> XFree86 4.1:
> Some libraries available to be built shared are not being done so. You might
> consider adding the following lines to xc/config/cf/host.def..
>
> #define SharedLibXxf86dga YES
> #define SharedLibXxf86vm YES
> #define SharedLibXinerama YES
>
> There may be others, but these are the ones I've run into thus far.
This is an intentional decision on the part of the xlibs maintainer, in
order to comply with the wishes of the XFree86 project. Search the list
archives for details. See also:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00353.html
> KDE, GNOME, and sawfish (and perhaps other relavant window managers):
> Window managers need to be build such that they are Xinerama aware.
> It appears to me that they are not so at the moment. For example,
> some KDE packages should be built with the "--with-xinerama" option to
> the configure script. Sawfish should detect Xinerama support
> automatically, but some GNOME packages may apparently also need
> configure options to allow xinerama to work properly and these should
> be investigated. Multi-head is really cool and it'd be great if it
> worked out of the box.
Consider filing wishlist bugs against the packages in question. This
will be much more likely to get the maintainers' attention than posting
your request here.
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- mdz
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