RFC: What to do with the stale/buggy Xft/Xrender in the tree.

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 16 o'clock on Mar 1, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" wrote:
> 
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>>It shouldn't be hard to fix imake, or more accurately, lnxLib.rules, to 
>>deal with teeny library revs. That's probably useful in the general 
>>sense. Although it'll break when some genius decides he needs four 
>>levels of versions on a library.
> 
> 
> "shouldn't be hard" == "not in this release timeframe"...

No. The sed command that turns, e.g., libXrender.so.1.2 or 
libXrender.so.1.2.3 into libXrender.so.1 for the soname in the library 
and the extra symlink is a trivial change in four places in lnxLib.rules.

{bsd,bsdi,darwin}Lib.rules are the only other systems that have this 
silliness.