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From: brossard@sic.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Sun shared libs - openwin vs MIT R4
Message-ID: <1991May9.112951@sic.epfl.ch>
Date: 9 May 91 09:29:51 GMT
References: <1991May8.210941.4846@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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    John, I think the permanent solution is to use only the MIT's
libraries.  For Xt and Xaw, no problem, Sun didn't change anything
so your Xt and Xaw is bound to be better.  The only library which
needs some thought is Xlib because Sun has added the code to make
the Compose key work which is necessary if you want to write in
french.
    But even in this case, we can improve on Sun, Justin Bur
(justin@lspsun1.epfl.ch) has written a set of patches which adds
compose behavior to Xlib and also adds dead keys which is even
more usefull than Compose.  I got his patches by bit and pieces,
so I can't send them to you, but ask him for the set telling him
I mentionned him to you.  (As an aside let him know that I should
have such a set :-).

    I have replaced all the lib from Sun by the patched ones
from MIT and everything has been running fine since.

sasun1[1]$ cd /sic/Open-Windows/lib
itcsh: chdir: Symbolic Link crossed.
sasun1[2]$ ls -l libX*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 staff           8 Dec 18 15:07 libX.a -> libX11.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 staff          13 Dec 18 15:07 libX.sa.1.0 -> libX11.sa.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           13 May  5 23:10 libX.so.1.0 -> libX11.so.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           21 May  5 23:10 libX11.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libX11.a
-rw-r--r--  1 staff         368 Nov 14 11:04 libX11.sa.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 staff          13 Dec 18 15:14 libX11.sa.4.3 -> libX11.sa.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           26 May  5 23:01 libX11.so.4.3 -> /sic/X11/lib/libX11.so.4.3
-rw-r--r--  1 staff      384374 Nov 14 11:03 libX11_p.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           21 May  5 23:10 libXau.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libXau.a
-rw-r--r--  1 staff       10438 Nov 14 11:03 libXau_p.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           21 May  5 23:10 libXaw.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libXaw.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           26 May  5 23:10 libXaw.so.4.0 -> /sic/X11/lib/libXaw.so.4.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           23 May  5 23:10 libXdmcp.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libXdmcp.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           22 May  5 23:10 libXext.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libXext.a-rw-r--r--  1 staff       27970 Nov 14 11:03 libXext_p.a
-rw-r--r--  1 staff         448 Nov 14 11:03 libXextent.a
-rw-r--r--  1 staff         240 Nov 14 11:04 libXextent.sa.0.0
-rw-r--r--  1 staff       24576 Jun 22  1990 libXextent.so.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           21 May  5 23:10 libXmu.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libXmu.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           26 May  5 23:05 libXmu.sa.4.0 -> /sic/X11/lib/libXmu.sa.4.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           26 May  5 23:10 libXmu.so.4.0 -> /sic/X11/lib/libXmu.so.4.0
-rw-r--r--  1 staff      776360 Nov 14 11:03 libXol.a
-rw-r--r--  1 staff      614400 Jun 22  1990 libXol.so.3.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           20 May  5 23:03 libXt.a -> /sic/X11/lib/libXt.a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           25 May  5 23:05 libXt.sa.4.0 -> /sic/X11/lib/libXt.sa.4.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           25 May  5 23:10 libXt.so.4.0 -> /sic/X11/lib/libXt.so.4.0

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Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse
brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch