Paul Onyschuk <blink_AT_bojary.koba.pl> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:30:05 +0100
> Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>
>>
>> Last time I checked (6 months ago perhaps), it was not possible to
>> build a full Xorg server without dynamic linking. Only TinyX works.
>>
>> The clients are no problem, they just get very fat.
>>
>
> Do you remember what was the issue (build or run time)? I've
> everything beside xkeyboard-config compiled (XML::Parser perl module
> missing, but I think that should be easy to fix). You can check
> pkgsrc.se [1] for dependencies of Xorg meta-package (actually it is
> meta-package that uses 5 other meta-packages).
>
> As for xorg-server 1.6.5 itself (name of individual part provided by
> X.org) it compiles with LDFLAGS+="-z muldefs", otherwise linker warns
> about multiple definitions and fails.
I tried xorg-server-1.9.5, and it says in hw/xfree86/loader/dlloader.c:
/*
* Once upon a time, X had multiple loader backends, three of which were
* essentially libdl reimplementations. This was nonsense so we chucked
* it, but we still retain the factorization between loader API and
* platform implementation. This file is the libdl implementation, and
* currently the only backend. If you find yourself porting to a platform
* without working libdl - hpux, win32, some forsaken a.out host, etc. -
* make a new backend rather than hacking up this file.
*/
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Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen_AT_gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
Received on Wed Feb 15 2012 - 16:41:13 CET