Re: Commenced update to XFree86(tm) 4.5.0 on MirOS BSD

First of all, thanks for the continued support!

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:53:22PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've built it through, and most of the stuff works for me.
>
>Before updating, you will have to remove /usr/X11R6 in its entirety,
>as I've reverted from "cloning OpenBSD behaviour" (in this case, bumping
>the shared library majors because of ProPolice) to "principle of least
>diffs against the vendor".

What is the policy there for bumping shared library majors?  The majors
for OpenBSD builds of XFree86 are already different than for most other
platforms, and I think that was done for the a.out->elf transition.

>There's still some 300-400 KiB worth of unified diff, however some of
>that is only a "pleasure diff" (e.g. linking freetype2 against the
>system libz, and exporting the system libz's symbols in the XF86 loader
>to the module), and most other stuff is taken from OpenBSD (wsfb, wscons,
>wsmouse, wskbd stuff) where I don't know if it's still needed.

It might be a good idea to see what of the ws* stuff needs to be folded in.

>Anyway, that's a "works for me" and the next development snapshot will
>be published with XFree86(tm) 4.5.0, and of course all required
>advertising clauses are reproduced in the documentation *wink*
>
>That makes us second to only Fink in adopting, as far as I know, by the way.
>
>I've got some minor problems still:
>
>tg@odem:/home/tg $ glxgears
>_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for local
>_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for local/odem.66h.42h.de:0
>Error: couldn't open display (null)
>tg@odem:/home/tg $ print $DISPLAY
>:0.0
>
>and of course the old apps such as mplayer don't work since they
>were linked against the old libs with higher shlib versions I
>just deleted, but the M*zilla(tee emm) Firef*x(tee emm) runs just
>fine in the OpenBSD binary emulation.
>
>To the XFree86 list:
>* feel free to list MirOS as a supporting project, as it was last release

Thanks.

>* do you have any idea regarding the above error? IPv6, maybe?
>  consider MirOS a clone of OpenBSD for most aspects.

I haven't seen this on any of the platforms I've tested on, including
fairly recent OpenBSD versions.  Do other clients start up OK?  You may
need to trace through what's happening in the xtrans code.  glxgears
calls XOpenDisplay in a fairly standard way.

David