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

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

Mike A. Harris wrote:

>>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,gnu}Lib.rules are the only other systems that have this 
>>silliness.
> 
> 
> Kaleb, can you make the necessary changes to make this happen 
> right away?  

They're already in the -CURRENT branch.

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Kaleb