Bug 93147 – My x.org linked app won't start on freshly released Knoppix 3.8.2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Joël 2005-05-19 01:07:56 UTC]

I've made a small app that I compiled and sent to a friend for testing, but he can't run it by default in Knoppix 3.8.2 (released on 2005-05-05) !

The only special library I use (libfftw) is linked statically, so that's not the issue.

Still, the following libraries are missing on Knoppix:
- /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
- /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3

These links mention libXinerama as well:
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62841
- http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg05101.html

My question is: is there a way to build an application on X.Org 6.8.2, that doesn't depend on these two libraries ?

I've tried to link these small libraries statically (I have the .a for both, in /usr/lib) but they are still displayed in ldd.

Thanks

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 01:11:05 UTC]

Only Gentoo bugs go here.

[Comment 2 Joël 2005-05-19 01:21:09 UTC]

I thought it was distro-specific because of this (from Jan 2004):

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My guess, is that he has a binary application he's downloaded, 
which was compiled on Gentoo or some other Linux distribution 
which ships all XFree86 libraries shared by default, and is 
trying to run it on a Red Hat system, which ships libraries the 
way XFree86 supplies them by default, which is no shared 
libXinerama (...)
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You mean that it's not distro-dependant anymore ?

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 01:25:35 UTC]

If your application does not run on Knoppix because Knoppix is missing the
required libraries, then I can

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 01:25:35 UTC]

If your application does not run on Knoppix because Knoppix is missing the
required libraries, then I can´t really see why it this a Gentoo bug. 

[Comment 5 Joël 2005-05-19 01:58:45 UTC]

Well not only Knoppix: many distros don't have it (yet?). So it might be good to
be able to build backward-compatibile X11 apps ?

I don't need Xinerama, and there *should* be a way to build applications on
Gentoo that will run anywhere.

Is there a way to either statically link it, or maybe to not depend on it ?