RE: Building Enlightenment

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

 _IceLastMajorOpcode symbol should be added to libICE-def.cpp file.  I
missed it originally.  It is exported in libICE.so at Linux and other UNIX
platforms.  You can do an nm on libICE on a UNIX box.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:14 PM
> To: Cygwin-Xfree
> Subject: RE: Building Enlightenment 
> 
> 
> >
> > > + _IceLastMajorOpcode
> >
> > Why does this symbol need to be exported?  I need some 
> description to 
> > put in the patch submission if I'm going to send this on to XFree86.
> >
> I've got some errors from people who were compiling the 
> kdelibs 2.1.1 from the kde-cygwin cvs area and the dcopserver 
> depends on this.
> 
> For kde 2.2.x this isn't recommended, because the dcopserver 
> uses a patched ICE lib, which was located in 
> kdelibs/dcop/KDE-ICE and does not need the origin libICE. I 
> have added this patched lib to the kde-xlib package to 
> support those people.
> 
> Only for kde I think this patch is not absolutly nessessary 
> to submit to the xfree group, because kde 2.1.1 is obsolate 
> and today I have send a request to the sourceforge stuff to 
> remove the kde 2.1.1 source release from the cvs area.
> 
> But it may be other apps who like to use this and this seems 
> to me the only symbol which isn't exported yet. Does this 
> have any specific reason ? Why should this symbol not be 
> exported anyway ? This would reduce some question about why 
> this was not exported in the future. What about if someone is 
> going to use the kde 2.1.1 dcopserver for another project. He 
> has to ask again about this missing symbol.
> 
> Any comments ?
> 
> Ralf
>