On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > > > So X402 will be in woody sometime soon (perhaps the next version) ?
> > > > > > I was told that no.
> > > > >
> > > > > It should be as soon as m68k will build the package, don't know what
> > > > > the problem is, maybe there are build problems on m68k, or maybe it
> > > > > takes just time.
>
> BTW this topic is outdated; Anthony announced yesterday that X4 is in testing
> now.
Aha? How come it works now?
> > > What about making a static server binary in the meantime ?
>
> Christian tried to build a static server, but it didn't work for some reason.
>
> > > (Including only the driver that make sense on m68k naturally ...)
> >
> > Alternatively: would it be possible to hack a quick layer between the
> > XFree86 module loader system and the standard dl* system we already have?
> >
> > XFRee86 mainly wrote their own system to work around bugs in dl* systems on
> > non-Linux OSses, which is something we don't have to care about.
>
> That's not the whole truth. The XFree86 module loader allows for platform
> independence.
That's the reasoning behind the modular system. But not the whole reasoning
behing the let's-write-our-own-loader system.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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