[Xcb] About next release of xcb/util

Peter Harris pharris at opentext.com
Fri Mar 26 07:44:25 PDT 2010


On 2010-03-26 07:24, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:43:28 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
>> Back when we still had locking assertions that regularly triggered on
>> questionable code, some distros compiled --without-xcb to avoid the
>> pain.  However, with the new handoff-based implementation, all the
>> distros I've looked at build with XCB.
>>
> Maemo 5 builds without XCB, as far as I know.  No idea about the newer
> development versions.

MacOSX 10.6 ships both Xlib and libxcb, but Xlib appears to have been
built without xcb support.

Not sure if anyone on MacOSX cares, though. IIRC, macports (and fink?)
builds its own Xlib if it needs one.

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