[PATCH:libX11] Don't need to link libX11-xcb against libX11

Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD.org
Sat Nov 16 06:33:55 PST 2013


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:39:58PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 11/15/13 06:18 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:03:25PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>libX11-xcb only accesses data structures defined in X11 headers,
> >>it doesn't call any functions or reference any global variables
> >>in libX11 itself.  (Seems to have been left from previous XCL
> >>implementation.)
> >
> >You should bump the library version number for that (line above that).
> 
> Why?  It doesn't change what's exported by this library.

If something relied on this library to pull in libX11, it will now
fail. (Not that I say that doing this was a good idea or correct.)
Isn't this an interface change?
 Thomas


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