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SubjectRe: The naming wars continue...
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On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:37, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch>
> By author: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Salut,
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > Yes - lets stick to fewer numbers. They can count faster, instead
> > > of having a long string of them. I hope linux doesn't
> > > end up like X. "X11R6.8.1" The "X" itself is a counter, although
> > > it is understandable if it never increments to "Y". But
> > > that "11" doesn't change much, and then there are three more numbers. :-/
> >
> > X11 is the name of the protocol: the X Protocol, version 11, as
> > released by the MIT. There was an X10.
> >
>
> There also were a W, and and X1, X2, ... X11.
>
> However, there is a tendency for numbers to get stuck (witness Linux
> 2.x). In particular, X11R6 got encoded in many places including
> pathnames for no good reason. Under the pre-R6 naming schemes we'd
> had R7 a long time ago.

How true.

# pwd
/usr/src2/uClibc-0.9.26
# grep -r X11R6 .
./ldso/ldso/readelflib1.c: UCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX "usr/X11R6/lib:"
./utils/ldd.c: path = UCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX "usr/X11R6/lib:"
./utils/ldconfig.c: scan_dir(UCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX "/usr/X11R6/lib");
./libpthread/linuxthreads/README.Xfree3.2:This file describes how to make a threaded X11R6.
./libpthread/linuxthreads/README.Xfree3.2:You need the source-code of XFree-3.2. I used the sources of X11R6.1
./libpthread/linuxthreads/README.Xfree3.2:cp XF3.2/xc/lib/*/*.so.?.? /usr/X11R6/lib/
./libpthread/linuxthreads/README.Xfree3.2:cd /usr/X11R6/lib/
./Changelog: o Made the lib loader also support libs in /usr/X11R6/lib by default

This should be removed.

cd /usr/lib; ln -s /usr/X11R6/* .
or
echo /usr/X11R6/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf

are the better ways to handle this
(I use first one)
--
vda

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