[Development] New (optional?) dependency: xcb-util-errors

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Apr 28 02:02:41 CEST 2015


On Monday 27 April 2015 22:21:49 Uli Schlachter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry, but which plugins in plugins are being used? I can't find anything
> like that.
> 
> Also, as you mention it is a small library:
> 
> $ size libxcb-errors.so
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   30900	   2632	      8	  33540	   8304	libxcb-errors.so

It's a C library in a Unix system. Just dlopen the library and make the calls 
you need.

We'll have to convince Linux distributions to package it. If they don't, we 
won't print nicer error messages, that's all. No loss of real functionality.
-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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