From: Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com (Suhaib M. Siddiqi)
Subject: Re: How To: Re: LessTif build under Cygwin32?
29 Jan 1999 23:27:05 -0800
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To: "Jon A. Christopher" <jon AT quorum DOT tamu DOT edu>,
        "Stipe Tolj" <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Cc: "tromey" <tromey AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "Francois Felix Ingrand" <felix AT dial DOT oleane DOT com>,
        "Kilfoyle, Greg" <greg DOT kilfoyle AT compaq DOT com>,
        "lesstif" <lesstif AT hungry DOT com>, "gnu-win32" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>



>> However, I'm very sad that the mounting points have to be binary. We
keep
>> usualy the aim to avoid binary mounts on Cygwin for our ports. May
this be
>> solved?
>
>I have no idea what this means.
>

If you plan to develop and not use binary mount point,  I would say,
that
expect a lot of pars errors and troublesome compilations.

Cygnus is based upon a simulated UNIX environment and doing a default
TEXT mount of a disk, is not really a proper way.  Beside, COOLVIEW
should be used
with binary mounts.  Read the Binary mount article at Sergey's web page.

I assume a lot of compilation failure which Cygwin32 users are reporting
are due to
configuration problems.

The LessTif-0.87 precompiled library will work properly only if you have
your
disks mounted as binary i.e. mount -b c: /
The distrubtion which I sent to Jon Christopher has libXlt.a missing.
However, I have sent him a
separate archive containg libXlt.a with headers and DLLs for
LessTif-0.871.  I think he will make it available
through www.lesstif.org.

The LessTif-0.87 librareis were tested and worked in my hand to compile
the following MOTIF based source codes:

Nedit-5.021
Xgraber
DDD Debuger 3.1.3
Mxdbg Debugger
SM Edit.
and few of my own source code.

Have fun.

Suhaib


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