On Wednesday 21 May 2003 11:00 am, Mike Harris wrote: > >> You should not have to recompile a single line of code to use the > >> new XFree86. > > > >That may well be in practice, but I've seen several applications > >require rebuilding, though the only details I recall off-hand > >were those apps using the X-Video extenstion, namely mplayer and > >xine. > > Those applications only require being rebuilt because the person > you downloaded them from who originally compiled them, had a > broken X installation, FYI, these were built against RedHat's XFree86 packages. In particular, xine/mplayer built on a rh8.0 box didn't run (X-video didn't work) on a rh9 box without rebuilding. -- Rex p.s. I'm resending this reply which I originally sent on Wed, May 21, but I never saw it appear on the list. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
