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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: X Libraries: 2.0 -> 2.1
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <9301060443.AA02375@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:22:46 GMT
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- In article <9301060443.AA02375@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
- >Hi all... One more question and I'll go away (until I baffle myself
- >again). Anyway... I was looking to clean up my hard drive as it is
- >at 60% capacity and I noticed that for all the X stuff there was
- >2.0 and 2.1 versions (libXaw, libX11, etc). I compressed (not
- >deleted, I'm getting smarter) the 2.0 stuff, and found that X would
- >not run cause it relied on it. How can I get X to recognize the
- >newer stuff, as I suppose it would be better to use that, plus I could
- >erase the older ones. Thanks...
-
- With the X libraries the only way to use 2.1 is to relink your
- binaries. This is because the X libraries are not the jump-table variety and
- version 2.1 is not binary compatible with 2.0.
-
- -Eric
-
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- Eric Youngdale
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