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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X prob on min sys w/ FreeBSD 2.2-961014 XFree86 3.1.2
Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:22:26 -0000
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.961111070839.18474A-100000@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>,
	Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> writes:
: On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> David E. O'Brien wrote:
>> > Acutally I've had mucho problems with the XFree86 that comes with the
>> > 961014 2.2-SNAP.  I get lots of "(null): warning:" messages about shared
>> > libraries.  Even when I rebuilt the ports.  Something is out of sync with
>> > the Xfree86 distributed.
: 
: Same here. It seems that XFree86 was compiled using 6.1 libraries,
: whereas the distribution contains libraries 6.0

Yep.

>> Odd.  I wonder why nobody else has complained about it?
: 
: Well probably because a SNAP is known to have problems and it was also
: known that XFree would change.
: 

Also, the errors aren't usually seen - if nothin's broke, people probably
don't look for errors.

-- 
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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