On Tuesday 17 August 2004 11:27 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > -----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. I didn't know about that end :). > > 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. Mine did to. Around that time they also made a number of changes to 3.2.3 and changed the gcc compiler. There were a number of ports that had to be rebuilt because of the upgrade in the gcc compiler. I think at some point, I just rebuilt everything. Kent > > Don't forget that even if there was a static binary the X wire protocol is > well defined so it wouldn't affect things. > > - -- -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html Support the Bison at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/Received on Wed Aug 18 2004 - 04:37:10 UTC
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