Bug 4200

Summary: Modular builds more shared objects than monolithic
Product: xorg Reporter: Nicholas Miell <nmiell>
Component: Build/ModularAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: 7.0.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: All   
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Description Nicholas Miell 2005-08-22 18:56:12 UTC 
Some libraries are deliberately build static-only in the monolithic tree, while
modular builds shared objects for everything, including what should probably
still be static-only.

This includes (but may not be limited to):

libdmx.so.1.0.0
liboldX.so.6.0.0
libXau.so.6.0.0
libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2005-08-24 09:04:51 UTC 
libXdmcp & libXau probably should be shared libraries as they are used by a 
number of X servers and display managers.   When the system had a single X 
server and just xdm, making them static made sense, but it doesn't fit as 
well in a world with Xorg, Xnest, Xvfb, Xdmx, Xprint, xdm, gdm, kdm, etc.
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2005-08-24 12:37:55 UTC 
dmx was being left static only because rik and kem weren't finished with the API
yet, but kem says it's ready to be shared now.

taking oldX shared won't hurt, i suppose.
Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2005-08-30 12:44:34 UTC 
nonetheless we should build them the same way in the monolith too.
Comment 4 Alan Coopersmith 2005-09-22 16:54:35 UTC 
libXau & libXdmcp are now built shared in the monolith as well.
Comment 5 Daniel Stone 2005-12-16 17:31:09 UTC 
guess we'll just swallow up the oldX difference?
Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2005-12-20 04:09:03 UTC 
yeah, oldX is too small and useless to worry about.

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