[Xcb] Status of XCB and howto begin

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Barton C Massey wrote:

> Now that we have a plan for the error system Keith, Jamey,
> and I can live with, someone needs to implement it.  That
> will probably not happen for a couple of more weeks, until
> after X Dev Con.  Right now, we're trying to get some XCB
> stuff ready for that...

ok

> Visibility support?  I thought we'd decided on a plan for
> that also...

iirc, there was 2 ways
1) adding -fvisibility=hidden and exporting all the needed symbols (Josh's
preferred way)
2) hiding the xcb internal functions (Jamey's preferred way)

and none of them was chosen.

Vincent

>
> 	Bart
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.51.0602041004400.23966 at cartan.iecn.u-nancy.fr> you wrote:
> >
> > hey :)
> >
> > any news about the error system and the visibility support ?
> >
> > Vincent
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:16:07PM +0100, Alexander Botero wrote:
> > > > 1) Is this (xcb) project vivid and active?
> > >
> > > XCB development is bursty, mostly because I do most of the work on the
> > > core code and sometimes I go off and work on other projects for a while
> > > instead. However we are making forward progress, and I have some hope
> > > that XCB and Xlib/XCB can be included in the X.org 7.1 release, whenever
> > > that happens.
> > >
> > > > 2) I would like to test your xcb (xlib replacement), but how to start?
> > >
> > > First, I hope you understand that XCB itself is not API-compatible with
> > > Xlib, but the Xlib/XCB work exists to provide a drop-in replacement for
> > > Xlib that provides a migration path. So testing XCB itself means either
> > > running our demo applications, or writing some of your own -- which we'd
> > > be happy to help you with.
> > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I do not fully understand howto install the various parts.
> > > >
> > > > I have read the
> > > > http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> > > >
> > > > and have installed all
> > > > pkgconfig 0.15.0,  automake 1.7,  autoconf 2.50,  libtool 1.5.6,  xsltproc,
> > > > gperf 3.0.1
> > > >
> > > > aclocal: configure.ac: 14: macro `AM_PATH_CHECK' not found in library
> > > >
> > > > My distro is Ubuntu 5.10 (X86 32 bit)
> > >
> > > You should be almost set: you only missed the dependency on 'check'. On
> > > stock Debian testing I can just `apt-get install check`, and I imagine
> > > Ubuntu has a similar package as well.
> > >
> > > --Jamey
> > >
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