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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1727 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7469 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Shared X ditribution was (Re: Updating to current) Date: 16 Dec 1993 00:27:33 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2eoa1l$6ct@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2ej7v4INN75v@flop.engr.orst.edu> <2ejfcj$d09@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <CI1736.C55@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <raboczi.755991693@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <raboczi.755991693@s1.elec.uq.oz.au>, Simon Raboczi <raboczi@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> wrote: > > >While we're on the topic of current distributions, shared libraries >and less disk space, does anyone have a set of *.rules and *.tmpl files >for doing a shared library build of XFree86? I'm interested in >FreeBSD, but I imagine the NetBSD versions might be identical. I >seem to recall Jordan Hubbard posting something about this a few weeks >back...? We are currently making sure (testing) the last revision of the X shared library patches that should allow both NetBSD and FreeBSD groups to build shared libraries from the same source tree. There were some problems with xath and bmtoa which were resolved earlier this week, and we've got problems with stripping the binaries that need to be resolved before we can get larger scale testing done on the binaries. And finally, the shared library implementation in both FreeBSD and NetBSD still doesn't completely support shared C++ libs, so until that is resolved FreeBSD (I don't speak for NetBSD) will not publically release the current shlib sources and tools in case a non-backwards compatible solution needs to be implemented to fix it. Getting much closer though... Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me