[packman] Re: [PM] last-exit 4.0 (openSUSE 10.2/x86_64)

[morgan.brassel at free.fr]

Selon Toni <toni at links2linux.de>:

> Am Freitag, 30. März 2007 schrieb morgan.brassel at free.fr:
> > Selon Toni <toni at links2linux.de>:
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > In fact, the file libX11.so is only present in the libX11 devel
> > > > packages for ALL architectures. This means last-exit won't start even
> > > > on 586 if this package is not installed, and it is not present in
> > > > opensuse default installation.
> > > >
> > > > A (pretty bad) solution would be to put the libX11 devel package in
> > > > last-exit dependencies. Another (maybe better) solution would be to
> > > > check for libX11.so.6 (installed on opensuse default installation)
> > > > rather than libX11.so.
> > >
> > > this is a "problem" of mono.
> > > you find often statements like  [DllImport("libX11")] which leads to a
> > > libX11.so ...
> > > the proposed solution on their mailinglist is to change the
> > > /etc/mono/config file with a proper mapping for such libs:
> > > <dllmap dll="libX11" target="libX11.so"/>
> > > should be
> > > <dllmap dll="libX11" target="libX11.so.6.2"/>
> > >
> > > anyway I uploaded a new package. Please give it a try.
> >
> > Hi, I just upgraded last-exit to the new package
> > last-exit-4.0-0.pm.2.x86_64.rpm but I still get the same error message (I
> > removed my libX11.so symbolic link and the file is still asked by the
> > last-exit command).
> aaargh :(
>
> I've patched the sources to avoid this and a test on my and Detlefs machine
> was succesfull without installed xorg-x11-devel package ... so my patch seems
> to work, but not in all cases :(

Yes, sorry. Maybe I did something wrong...

>
> > But maybe I didn't understand your message: do I need to edit the mono
> > config file manually?
> yes, the proposed way to deal with this problems is:
> edit your /etc/mono/config to point to the right libX11.
>
> So this is not an "error" of last-exit package, it's a setup question of
> mono.
> If you look at your /etc/mono/config you find some entries like
> libcairo.so.2,
> so they point to the actual version. But for libX11 SuSE package is pointing
> to libX11.so ... so simply change this and it should work as expected.
>

Ok. Thank you for all your advice!
Morgan


> > Thanks for all,
> > Morgan
> >
> > > have fun
> > > Toni
> Toni
>
>