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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Call for testers: xfree-4.3.0-r6
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:11:05
Message-Id: 1079370661.23506.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Call for testers: xfree-4.3.0-r6 by Jason Stubbs
1 On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:47, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 01:18, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
3 > > I downgraded to xfree-4.3.0-r6 from xfree-4.3.99.902-r2 and now gdm,
4 > > for instance, does not work anymore because .so files are .a ones with
5 > > 4.3.0.
6 > >
7 > > Switching back to xfree-4.3.99.902-r2 because I do not want to rebuild
8 > > everything that links against X libraries.
9 >
10 > I made the same mistake when -r5 came out. It seems that xfree is pretty much
11 > like glibc - if you're going to downgrade it, be sure to rebuild everything
12 > that depends on it.
13
14 Yeah, they have more shared libs in the 4.3.99 so when you downgrade,
15 things that built against the newer ones break (libXinerama.so is the
16 most common).
17
18 revdep-rebuild might fix that.
19
20 Donnie
21 --
22 Donnie Berkholz
23 Gentoo Linux

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