On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:57:47PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:00:07AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > XSF, can we switch to using dlloader on alpha? Pleeaaaase? :) > > > > It does not make sense to do this for one architecture only. > > > > I'd suggest that until we move to dlloader wholesale, alpha joins hppa, > > mips*, m68k, sh*, etc in using a static-only server. > > Are there any serious plans from upstream to move to dlloader after the > modularization effort is done? Freedesktop bug #400 isn't clear on that...
dlloader has been the default in 6.9 for a few months now, and the modular tree has no idea how to build .o modules, only .so. > Also, how much work would it take to move to dlloader wholesale? A reasonable amount, plus breaking all external drivers (Synaptics, ATI, nVidia) until it gets sorted out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
