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List:       gtk-app-devel
Subject:    Re: How to compile and link GTK2 Programms tobe compatibe with	XFree86
From:       Daniel Yek <dyek () real ! com>
Date:       2007-08-31 20:24:07
Message-ID: 46D878E7.70900 () real ! com
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David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:21:52PM +0200, gtk@rapp-informatik.de wrote:
>   
>> I changed my developping system now the system openSuse uses
>>   Xorg  the old system used XFree86
>> Installed gtk 2.8 or
>>
>> Building the exexutable now libraries from Xorg are included
>> like libXfixes.so.3 org
>> LivXinarema.so.1 or
>> libglitz.so.1
>>
>> the executeable does not run under systems using XFree86
>> because auf missing lib.
>> <snip>
>> I hope there will be a possibility to build gtk programms
>> under newer Distibutions also runable under older Distributions.
>>     

You are looking for LSB (which is probably not perfect, but it could be 
as good as you can get -- in my opinion, anyway):
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/.

-- 
Daniel Yek.
>> Installing firefox under the older Distributions makes no problems
>> and i guess this is gtk applikation too.
>>     
>
> Mozilla builds with old libraries, IIRC they build on
> something as ancient as RedHat 8.  To produce executables
> that run with library version X or newer build with library
> version X (assuming backward compatibility) -- to ensure
> your program actually works with version X, you need to
> build and test it with this version anyway (can be done for
> instance on a virtual machine).  The other possibility is to
> dlopen everything -- generally fragile. The third
> possibility is to bundle the libraries -- probably not an
> option with X.
>
> Yeti

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