[PATCH:libX11] Don't need to link libX11-xcb against libX11

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 11/16/13 06:33 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:39:58PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 11/15/13 06:18 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:03:25PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>> libX11-xcb only accesses data structures defined in X11 headers,
>>>> it doesn't call any functions or reference any global variables
>>>> in libX11 itself.  (Seems to have been left from previous XCL
>>>> implementation.)
>>>
>>> You should bump the library version number for that (line above that).
>>
>> Why?  It doesn't change what's exported by this library.
>
> If something relied on this library to pull in libX11, it will now
> fail. (Not that I say that doing this was a good idea or correct.)

Sorry, I'm used to platforms where that's not possible - the linker will
throw an error if you call libX11 functions and don't specify -lX11
directly.  The x11-xcb.pc does still specify linking with both libX11 &
libxcb, so callers still should be getting that in their linker commands.
(Whether that's a good idea or not is a separate discussion.)

Are there many people using platforms where the linker allows such bugs,
and they use this newish library without getting the flags from pkg-config,
and they didn't already link with -lX11 for all the other X calls they make?

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