"-lXinerama" is wrong, or?

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Fri, 09, May 2003, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

> Hi Benny,

Hey Olivier,

> Couldn't we just link statically to libXinerama.a ?
> 
> It's just 4Kb on my system and that would be more "user friendly"... Not
> everybody has the root access to create the .so in /usr/X11R6/lib/
> 
> This way, we could also make Xinerama enabled by default when the lib 
> is present. 

I tried to do so, but it seems impossible to have this done in a portable
way. The work-around for non-root users is easy:

	1) create the .so file for you and put it somewhere (e.g. ~/.libs)
	2) include the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and in LDFLAGS at compile
	   time)

Benedikt

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