Is it possible just to recompile libfb and replace it?

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 11:46:00 PST 2006


Helli again,

> It's probably static on some platforms, dynamic on others (I'm not sure
> how xorg does the cross-platform dlopen thing...and I don't have the time
> to look into it now).
Well it seems to be static at least with xorg-6.9/linux, maybe
semantics have changed between 6.9 and 7.1...

> That said, libfb is part of the xorg-server package anyway, so why not
> just build a new server?  It's probably quicker and easier than figuring
> out how to recompile libfb separately.
Well ... I am afraid of destroying my system ;-)
However I'll give it a try, thanks for the suggestion.

lg Clemens



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