Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/10/26/21:45:37
yes, the reasons are X servers are still unfucntional. The libs and clients
will
work only with B20.1. For Cygwin CD 1.0 you need ss-dev.tar.gz
Is it a good idea to orgaize all the Cygwin realted X11 stuff at one place
under cgwin-xree? It may help avoid these confusions, I am noticing
recetly?
Suhaib
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Jorgensen <steve AT khoral DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 2:40 PM
Subject: X11 for cygwin CD 1.0
> I know that this list has been told to use the
> x11r6.4-cygwin-ss-dev.tar.gz version of Xwindows for the cygwin
> 1.0 cd, but before it was discussed on this list, I found the
> pre-alpha-xfree-cygwin-b20.1.tar.bz2 version. While the Xserver
> itself is in the pre-alpha stages, the libraries and clients seem
> to work as well or better than the x11r6.4-cygwin-ss-dev.tar.gz
> version. Is there some reason why we should not use this
> pre-alpha-xfree-cygwin-b20.1 version?
>
> The x11r6.4-cygwin-ss-dev.tar.gz version can't run xterm, it just
> complains about not being able to find an appropriate termcap
> entry, even after I added one. Also the header files produce
> tons of annoying warnings, because they lack return types on
> several function declarations, which produce warnings about
> assuming int for the return type.
>
> I thinking about sticking with the pre-alpha version,
> because the above reasons, but I wanted to make sure
> there aren't any hidden gotcha's.. :) Thanks for any
> information.
>
> Steve
>
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