From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: the libXv.so.x shared library is missing from skipjack while the .a file exists... this has prevented me from compileing certain programs without difficulty Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.simply missign from distro 2. 3. Additional info:
libXv should not _ever_ be a shared library. It was enabled as a shared library in Red Hat Linux 7.1 accidentally, and was disabled again for the erratum. To provide binary compatibility for programs which were unfortunate enough to get linked to the shared library, I created the XFree86-compat-libs package, which contains libXv and libXxf86dga shared libraries for runtime usage. It does not contain the .so for development usage however, and this is very intentional as these libraries should not be shared. Any application which requires shared libXv or libXxf86dga at build time is broken, and should be fixed to link statically. The compat-libs package will disappear in a future release when XFree86 4.3.0 comes out.