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Re: XFree 4.2.1 + fontconfig-2

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:25:48 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> That is a windows problem. The XFree libraries are in fact versioned.
> (libXaw.so.6.1 vs libXaw.so.7.0)

Alexander,

You've hit a sore spot here. The issue of Xft1 vs Xft2 was only the
starting of a larger picture.

Your right in the fact that all libraries are versioned, and we don't
respect that for any library. libX11.a should really be libX11-6_2.a etc
or some equivalent of.

We also need to consider backwards compatibility as to not break older
applications.

I've fixed the immediate problem and can re-instate Xft1. But any
want to pipe up with anything on this topic ?

Alan.
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