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snuffer
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 Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: Moving from Xorg to Xfree |
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I am having some problems with Xorg locking up https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=198023&highlight= so i want to move back to xfree. How would i do that because when i tried it many programs couldnt find certain "so"s.
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wzzrd
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Moving from Xorg to Xfree |
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Sorry, man, but you're going to have to recompile a whole lot of stuff then... Make a quickpkg for xorg, so you can migrate back quickly if needed, emerge xfree and run revdep-rebuild and either brace yourself or find something useful to do for the coming eons (and eons and eons, you get the point...)
See, your programs where apparently linked against libraries belonging to xorg. When you remove these libs (the so's you mention, shared objects) and replace then you have to relink your programs against the new libs. This means recompiling, which is the only way I know of for solving this problem... |
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snuffer
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Is there now way to make xfree86 provide these libs? (how come migrating from xfree to xorg is so easy?)
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svyatogor
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| snuffer wrote: | | Is there now way to make xfree86 provide these libs? (how come migrating from xfree to xorg is so easy?) |
Don't forget that developers always try to preserve upward compatibility, but it doesn't work other way round. |
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