Subject: Re: emacs package
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <David.Laight@btinternet.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/12/2001 22:21:15
> > How badly does it bleat if you, for instance,
> >     ln -s /usr/lib/libc.so.? /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
> > (pick any library that exists?)
> > 
> >     David
> >
> I don't think that is a good solution. It is actually linked with much more
> than 1 x library.  The correct solution is to have 2 binary packages in the
> pkg tree, one that is linked against X and one that is not.  Basically the way
> they did vim.

I didn't say it was a GOOD solution!

Better would be to dlopen() libXaw and lookup the required symbols by hand....

    David