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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newer X11 libs?
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:50:58 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CDROM.
> Everything has gone rather well, except that some of the X clients
> (apparently the "contrib" clients) are linked against newer X11
> shared libraries than what came off the CDROM. To name them, the
> libraries are lib{Xaw,X11,Xext}.so.6.1. Is there a newer version
> of XFree out there somewhere, or did these clients get linked on
> someone's development rig?
The 6.1 shared libs belong to X11R6.1. There's no official XFree86
release however that has been incorporating this. It will be in
XFree86 3.2, scheduled for October if my memory serves me well.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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