X.org update broke emulators/wine with old version of X

[Florent Thoumie]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On my FreeBSD 6.2 test system with xorg-libraries-6.9.0 I am getting
> the following build failure after the X.org update:
> 
>   ../../tools/winegcc/winegcc -B../../tools/winebuild -shared ./ddraw.spec 
>   clipper.o ddraw.o ddraw_thunks.o device.o direct3d.o executebuffer.o 
>   gamma.o light.o main.o material.o palette.o parent.o regsvr.o surface.o 
>   surface_thunks.o texture.o utils.o vertexbuffer.o viewport.o version.res 
>   -o ddraw.dll.so -lole32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lkernel32 -lntdll 
>   -ldxguid -luuid -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -lXext -lX11 
>   ../../libs/port/libwine_port.a -L/files/pfeifer/porttest/wine/lib 
>   -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/files/pfeifer/porttest/wine/lib/wine
>   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
>   winegcc: cc failed.
>   gmake[2]: *** [ddraw.dll.so] Error 2
> 
> I believe this happens because of the changes to Mk/bsd.xorg.mk. The 
> libraries are still there, but I assume the old /usr/X11R6/lib path is
> not provided any longer:
> 
>   % find /usr/X11R6/ -name '*libXext*'
>   /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a
>   /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so
>   /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
> 
> Can someone more familiar with this lend a helping hand, please?  I
> assume we do want to support users still running older versions of X,
> don't we?

Not really. This is why XFree86-4 will go away in a few months.

In that case, it's not about the version of X. The breakage is caused by
the PREFIX merge.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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