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From: bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: VGA X11R4 server problems
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Date: 9 Jun 90 23:18:55 GMT
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In article <2681@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell) writes:
>>
>>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.
>
>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.

>Sorry for the damage of your X11R3, but reinstalling X11R3 from Interactive
>costs less time than recompiling the X11R4 tape.
>

No damage done.

I don't run builds with permissions set to allow changes to system
files. I consider any build which changes system files to be broken
(and potentially hostile).

But, I understand your motives. I would only ask that such exceptional
behavior in a build be prominently noted in the README file. (I don't
like to run big builds twice, either ;-)

For the record:

I hate it when software contributors get raked over the coals by ungrateful
net-oids. I hope I have in no way discouraged T. Roell from further
contributions.

Also:

I was suffering from Information Overload when I made my last posting.
It has since been pointed out to me that the Berklib.c patch that I posted
had already appeared in this group. Sorry for any offense given in that
regard.-- 
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