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From: roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: VGA X11R4 server problems
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Date: 7 Jun 90 12:24:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: bret@codonics.COM's message of 2 Jun 90 06:11:58 GMT

>And finally:
>                       <<<    BEWARE    >>>
>
>Be aware that Herr Roell's version of X11R4 violates the separation
>between building and installation. The build stage tries to install
>libraries -- probably *not* what you want to do if you already have
>ISC's X11R3 installed, and you want to look before you leap. (And it
>uses hard-coded destination directories, as well.)

This was absolutely intended. Shared libs (i.e the target library) must reside
in a wellkown path (here it is /usr/lib/X11/shlib). So these MUST be installed,
before you can use any client and the server as well. The host shared libs
are installed, too, to pervent form linking the wrong version of the lib.
I made this mistake, and it took me serveral hours to recompile the whole tape.
Sorry for the damage of your X11R3, but reinstalling X11R3 from Interactive
costs less time than recompiling the X11R4 tape.

- Thomas



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