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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel-xorg-modular merging
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 23:54:38 -0300

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:51:39 +0200
Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> Am Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:03:36 -0400
> schrieb Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>:
>
> > I've attached what I posted close to a year ago. Javier also had
> > the idea of chaining a planar list of casts, which maybe a better
> > solution than trying to rely on UP_TRIGGERS.
>
> Well, the list seems about right. The ones I encountered are in there
> (cairo and pango stuff).
>
> What I wondered, though: Couldn't we just keep the
> libpthread-stubs.so.0 in place somehow? I mean ... it's a bit stupid
> to actively break stuff by removing this (stupid) library. What we
> actually want is the new pthread-stubs pkgconfig file and, some
> insurance that no future cast will link to this lib. Isn't that
> possible? We could provide an updated libpthread-stubs 0.2 spell that
> only installs the binary lib needed by already installed spells. The
> 0.3 libpthread-stubs would be a new spell that installs the normal
> stuff and would not conflict with the current version of
> libpthread-stubs as it doesn't install the .so.
>
> This is messy in its own right, but this kind of mess would at least
> avoid breaking any installed spell. We could hide the mess by actually
> building the 0.2 .so inside the 0.3 spell and install it as if it
> would belong (removing the plain .so to avoid fresh linking ... or do
> I misremember linker behaviour?)
>
> The question would be when to remove the .so for good, but I wouldn't
> be in such a hurry. We'd need the same decision on when to remove
> these triggers.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas
>
>
> PS: Perhaps you noticed, I am trying to revive
> http://sourcemage.org/issues/423 by posting there. We might shift some
> discussion there, at least conclusions.

I just updated http://sourcemage.org/issues/423

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