[Xcb] [RFC PATCHv2] New XCB socket handoff mechanism for Xlib/XCB and other libraries

Mikhail Gusarov dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Thu May 1 21:15:15 PDT 2008


Twas brillig at 20:48:56 01.05.2008 UTC-04 when James Cloos did gyre and gimble:

 JC> A lot of other binaries on my box needed rebuilding as they directly
 JC> referenced libxcb-xlib.so.0.

It is bug in packaging, called 'overlinking' and usually caused by
installing libtool .la files. Here is one spectacular example:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html

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