[Xquartz-dev] Strange Xlib error with e17

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 09:07, Dave Ray wrote:

> Thanks again for the help with the e17 app. App developers found a bug in the seek path for X11 libs.
> 
> Upon fixing, it appears that one of the X11 libs it needs,  libXp.6.dylib, is not in /opt/X11, but is in /usr/X11.

Why are they using it?  It has been deprecated for years, and hasn't been maintained.  The developers should abandon Xprint.

> Would it be a problem to mix that lib from /usr/X11 with others from /opt/X11?

Yes, because it pulls in libX11.

> Are there plans to include libXp in XQuartz in the future?

No, but you can build it yourself:

./configure --prefix=/opt/X11 && make && sudo make install