Re: Apparently libXt isn't actually a leaf on the X11 library tree after all

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/16 6:48 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> > We had thought that libXt wasn’t actually linked in the X11 tree, but this appears not to be so.
> >
> > It’s linked by:
> > /opt/X11/lib/libXaw6.6.dylib
> > /opt/X11/lib/libXaw7.7.dylib:
> > /opt/X11/lib/libXaw8.8.dylib:
> > /opt/X11/lib/libXaw3d.8.dylib:
> > (these may not matter since we’ve got libxaw3dxft2)
> > /opt/X11/lib/libxkbui.1.dylib
> > /opt/X11/lib/libXmu.6.dylib
> >
> > The last one appears to be what is causing runtime failures with xemacs, since xemacs links to /opt/X11/lib/libXmu.6.dylib and to /opt/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib, along with our libXaw.8.dylib (libxaw3dxft-shlibs) which now links to Fink’s libxt.6.dylib from libxt-shlibs.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the whole rationale for having our own libxt (not so much for libxt-flat) was to try to provide a consistent libXt so that people wouldn’t have things break when updating from Xquartz 2.7.8 to later versions where libXt has been mucked with.
> >
> > Here are some options:
> >
> > 1)  Ditch libxt, possibly libxt-flat, and roll our own Xquartz
>
> I've been keeping an X11 set of packages mostly up to date:
> http://cvs.snaggledworks.com/viewvc.cgi/fink/10.7/main/finkinfo/x11 and
> x11-system directories.
>
> The libraries are current. xorg-server is not current and I haven't used
> it in probably 3 years (and I was running 10.7 at the time). Although it
> ran, there were several things that still needed patching (xinit I
> believe was looking in wrong paths). Also, IIRC, StartupItems behavior
> has changed since then and would probably need to be fixed in these
> packages. Also, there currently is no xorg-libxt-flat package in my set.
>
> I'm agnostic on rolling our own versus forcing an update to 2.7.11. The
> latter is less work, but we are at the mercy of another fix from upstream.
>
> Hanspeter


Hanspeter,
      FYI, I have posted patches for fink to support sandboxing at
https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/135 which will allow you easily
blacklist /opt/X11. The patches use a %p/etc/fink.sb file containing a
simple list of directories to be blacklisted.
         Jack

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