-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:43, kstewart wrote: > One more point. When you build a new library, the only safe thing to do is > rebuild everything that uses that library. You don't know if they changed > an element of a structure or not. If they didn't and you rebuild > everything, all you did is lose some cpu time. If they modified something, > and you don't rebuild everything, then, you have introduced the possiblity > for massive offset errors that you won't know about until someone breaks > into your system. I am pretty sure that things like Xlib have quite a fixed ABI which means you shouldn't have to rebuild apps that use it. The most likely outcome of a broken ABI is a coredump and I don't see any of those, all the applications I've tried work fine too. Don't forget that even if there was a static binary the X wire protocol is well defined so it wouldn't affect things. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBIvbs5ZPcIHs/zowRAnDnAJ4jZzO6dL1Ayjrf67irfQqOKh4d3wCgi+zM a+ghRYz0ZHM7vwUKHsfFbbI= =8h9J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Wed Aug 18 2004 - 04:28:43 UTC
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