RE: Getting Xv support into next Redhat release

I understand what the "ln -sf" line is doing but what is the purpose of the
"ld" line?

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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Holden [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:39 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Neomagic] Getting Xv support into next Redhat release
> 
> 
> Michael,
> 
> You need to do the following....
> 
> become root, then...
> 
> # cd /lib/X11R6/lib
> # ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so libXv.a
> # ln -sf libXv.so libXv.so.1
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> Quoting "Michael St. Laurent" <[email protected]>:
> 
> > I'm trying to install Xine and the xine-lib-xv package depends on
> > lib-Xv.so.1  However, the library I have installed is
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.a
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael St. Laurent
> > Hartwell Corporation
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 
> > > Ups, have you tried "xine -V Xv" for enabling the xv mode?
> > > 
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