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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:49:27AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> 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).

I doubt it.  This dates back to Arpi's first commit from 2001-02-24,
while the XFree86 release dates were

XFree86 4.0.2 	18 December 2000
XFree86 4.0.3 	16 March 2001
XFree86 4.1.0 	2 June 2001

Diego