libprinter.a .99 error ...?

Felix Schulte felix.schulte at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 06:31:23 EST 2005


On 7/11/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2005 14:19, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Monday 11 July 2005 12:31, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > > Xprt does not need to link against libX11. Xprt needs Xrm.c but
> > > somehow it now pulls other unrelated parts into the link phase, too.
> > > Adding xorg-modular to cc: as it may be broken due that work.
> >
> > Needing Xrm.c counts as needing libX11, though you could argue that it
> > belongs in Xau.
> >
> > I'm looking into this right now.
> 
> The expedient fix is to link Xprint against libX11.  This is assuredly
> "incorrect" in some sense, but it links and appears to work as normal.  

The tree now builds but the resulting Xprt binary seems to be defunct.
I recommend to back out both commits, the one which broke the build in
the original place and the workaround which links Xprt against libX11.

>This
> change has been committed in the interest of having the tree build.
> 
> The correct fix will require some time investment from Xprint people.  I have
> no idea how it could ever have linked in the first place, nor how the
> XlibConf.h change broke it.

The correct fix may be simply to back out the change which broke the build.

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