libX11 and xcb

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Fri Apr 9 13:39:26 PDT 2010


On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:36:55AM -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy Huddleston
> <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> > So what is the general recommendation at this point for how to ship
> > libX11?  I'm still shipping a build --without-xcb mainly because we
> > wanted to play it safe during xcb's infancy.
> 
> I'm curious to hear from packagers myself. I think most packagers are
> building --with-xcb at this point, on Linux, BSD, and Solaris? I don't
> know though.

OpenBSD 4.7 (already finished, waiting for release in may) will ship
with a xcb-enabled libX11.
FreeBSD 7.3 and 8 are also shipping a xcb-enabled libX11.

Afaik, NetBSD is still shipping the --without-xcb version on all their
releases and in -current.
-- 
Matthieu Herrb


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