[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Remove redundant XShmGetEventBase declaration

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi
Mon Aug 11 01:49:27 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 01:31 +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Uhm... have you seen that little "if" up there?
> It means, if and only if there are still systems around
> that do not declare XShmGetEventBase in the header file,
> then, and only then there should be a configure check.
> And as MIT-SHM is old (as in very old), i doubt that any
> such system exists.
> 
> I just checked the appropriate documentation, and 
> MIT-SHM is in X since at least X11R5 (which means 1994!),
> the document is even dated 1991! This means it's nearly 10 years
> older than MPlayer. So, i really doubt that there is any
> sytem around that would still need that declaration hack at all.

Ivan's post from last Thursday did finally name a system without the
declaration: XFree86 4.1 (I haven't checked whether that's accurate).




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