[PATCH xdm] Re-introduce the ability of staticcally linking the greeter.

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Nov 7 13:54:14 PST 2011


On 11/07/11 13:48, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le 07/11/2011 21:56, Alan Coopersmith a écrit :
>> That shouldn't be needed - this is about making the greeter statically
>> linked into the xdm binary instead of being a dlopen'ed plugin module,
>> not about making it statically link with all the system/X11 libraries.
>>
>>
>
> Oops, my bad. Brain fart.
>
> Any actual reason why the greeter is a shared lib? Did anyone ever develop
> alternative greeters? Is it even possible?

As far as I know it's possible, but I don't know if it was ever done, with
those developing alternative UI's like dtlogin & gdm mostly preferring to just
completely fork the source instead.    (CDE's dtlogin contained much of the xdm
sources, I haven't checked gdm or others much.)

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