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authorDRC <dcommander@users.sourceforge.net>2011-06-14 22:25:30 +0000
committerDRC <dcommander@users.sourceforge.net>2011-06-14 22:25:30 +0000
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Using build-xorg without -static is not useful, because it causes Xvnc to depend on the dynamic X11 libraries generated by build-xorg in the build directory. Thus, remove -static and make that behavior the default.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/tigervnc/code/trunk@4498 3789f03b-4d11-0410-bbf8-ca57d06f2519
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@@ -83,13 +83,12 @@ The following procedure will build both the TigerVNC Viewer and a
cd {build_directory}
sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg init -version 7.4
- sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg build -version 7.4 [-static] [additional configure flags]
+ sh {source_directory}/unix/build-xorg build -version 7.4 [additional configure flags]
-Passing an argument of "-static" to the build command line will generate a
-version of Xvnc that has no external dependencies on the X11 shared libraries
-or any other distribution-specific shared libraries. This version of Xvnc
-should be transportable across multiple O/S distributions. The legacy-friendly
-build should work on Red Hat Enterprise 4, its contemporaries, and later
+build-xorg generates a version of Xvnc that has no external dependencies on the
+X11 shared libraries or any other distribution-specific shared libraries. This
+version of Xvnc should be transportable across multiple O/S distributions.
+build-xorg should work on Red Hat Enterprise 4, its contemporaries, and later
systems. It probably will not work on older systems. It has not been tested
on non-Linux systems (yet).