In article <20021002003711.A17154@auron.sgtc>,
	Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org> writes:
> Is there a reason why the Xinerama library is not built as a shared
> library by default?

Because the XFree86 developer didn't consider the API stable when
XFree86 4.2.0 was released. IIRC XFree86-current supports a shared
version of that library.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/