Re: Xlib

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> Remco van de Meent <remco@Cam053212.student.utwente.nl> writes:
> 
> > I have thread-safe version of the X-libraries. 
> > What I want to do, is start X, and a client, using those libraries, instead
> > of those in /usr/X11R6/lib.
> 
> I thought Debian XFree86 3.3 was thread safe anyway.  But assuming you
> know what you're talkign about here...

Thought so too ..

> 
> The X server is single-threaded anyway and quite independent of the
> client libs.  In fact:

yes, the X server is. But many clients aren't. And, quite a few
X clients use Xlibs.

> Most likely, you want to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Also, are you sure the
> normal X programs work with your safe libraries?  Wouldn't it be
> easier to do the following?
> 
> % alias mnemonic='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/Xlib-threadsafe ~/bin/mnemonic'

That's one way, but assuming his thread safe libs are OK, he problably
wants to use them for all his programmes.

The best way probably just is to add `~remco/src/Xlib-threadsafe' in
/etc/ld.so.conf.

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