> Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have thread-safe version of the X-libraries. > > What I want to do, is start X, and a client, using those libraries, instead > > of those in /usr/X11R6/lib. > > I thought Debian XFree86 3.3 was thread safe anyway. But assuming you > know what you're talkign about here...
Thought so too .. > > The X server is single-threaded anyway and quite independent of the > client libs. In fact: yes, the X server is. But many clients aren't. And, quite a few X clients use Xlibs. > Most likely, you want to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Also, are you sure the > normal X programs work with your safe libraries? Wouldn't it be > easier to do the following? > > % alias mnemonic='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/Xlib-threadsafe ~/bin/mnemonic' That's one way, but assuming his thread safe libs are OK, he problably wants to use them for all his programmes. The best way probably just is to add `~remco/src/Xlib-threadsafe' in /etc/ld.so.conf. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .