[X2Go-Dev] Bug#116: Bug#238: Bundled libraries

[Orion Poplawski]

On 06/14/2013 04:13 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Orion,
>
> On Fr 14 Jun 2013 04:44:16 CEST Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> Package: nx-libs
>>
>> nx-libs has copies of a number of libraries in nx-X11/extras/ (and some glue
>> in nx-X11/libs).  We should get rid of these and use system provided versions.
>>
>> As a first stab, I'm able to remove the following without any harm:
>>
>> rm -r nx-X11/extras/{drm,fonts,ogl-sample,regex,ttf2pt1,x86emu,zlib}
>> rm -r nx-X11/lib/{regex,zlib}
>>
>> expat appears to be essentially the 1.95.6 version.  And can be disabled by
>> setting HasExpat YES in nx-X11/config/cf/host.def.
>>
>> fontconfig is an unmodified fontconfig 2.3.2 and can be disabled with
>> HasFontconfig YES.
>>
>> rman is not needed and can be disabled with BuildRman NO.
>>
>> That's a far as I've gotten today.
>
> Thanks for having started working on this. You earlier reported this request
> via BTS (#116) and getting a fix for this issue rolling is pretty valuable, I
> guess.
>
> We won't be able to remove the source folders you referred to from our
> nx-libs.git repos as the git repos also documents how NoMachine releases get
> merged into NX (redistributed). However, we should get rid of those folders at
> build-time (.deb packages) and get rid of those folders from the tarballs
> (.rpm et al. packages).
>
> So, if you work on this (I know that you work on .rpm based systems), please
> edit nx-libs.git/debian/roll-tarball.sh for us whenever you want to remove
> files from the tarball. If you need some other build options, provide that
> change as a patch for our patch system. Just send the patch, I will transform
> that into an appropriate quilt patch.
>
> For the .deb build process, we have to move folders out of the way during
> build-time via /debian/rules. I can see to that, once you have a diff for the
> roll-tarball.sh script.
>
> Greets+Thanks!
> Mike

Okay, here goes my initial changes.

I'd still like to unbundle Xpm if possible, but it does get linked to 
libXcomp.  And Mesa may be just too integrated.

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Orion Poplawski
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