Re: Installing XFree86 4.3 on RHL 7.3
Rex Dieter <[email protected]>
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On Saturday 17 May 2003 11:00 am, Mike Harris wrote: > >as well as lots of subtle incompatibilies between XF 4.2 and 4.3 > >that would/should require rebuilding other packages for the new > >XFree86. > > This one though, is absolutely false. ;o) OK, maybe saying that there were *lots* of subtle incompatibilities was a bit strong. There are at least a few that I've seen. > You should not have to recompile a single line of code to use the > new XFree86. That may well be in practice, but I've seen several applications require rebuilding, though the only details I recall off-hand were those apps using the X-Video extenstion, namely mplayer and xine. -- Rex _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com