Re: [Gnoppix-devel] [gnome2.4] problem with gtk+2.0 dependency on non-existent xlibs-pic

[Sven Herzberg]

Am Mo, 2003-09-22 um 04.33 schrieb James Strandboge:
> I am not an xfree86 expert, therefore I come to the list for help.  Just
> so I could keep backporting, I just removed the build-dependency on
> xlibs-pic.  However, gtk+2.0 has a patch that enables checking for and
> using -lXinerama_pic instead of -lXinerama.  I checked xlibs-dev, and
> found /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a in your xlibs-dev.

> Would it be sufficient to remove this patch, therefore just using
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a, or does more need to happe?.  My
> understanding is that one of the things that differentiates gnome2.4
> from gnome2.2 is that it is supposed to utilize Xinerama better, so I
> want to make sure I get this right.

  I would recommend to go on without this patch at the moment to procees
with the backport but file a bug against gtk and xfree to have th
pic-packages later. IIRC pic is good for memory sharing between apps so
we should try to get it in later.

Regards,
  Sven
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