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Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:11:07AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >> I'll tar up a file and try locally.
> >
> >If that doesn't work, download the CVS tree again, this time on your
Windows
> >machine. I have a feeling that your CVS checkout was probably messed
up by
> >the whole Samba thing, but I could be wrong.
>
> I build from Samba all of the time with no problem (except for speed).
> The only big gotcha is that symlinks don't work, although that will be
> fixed in the next release.
>
> cgf
>
Do you build with Imake?
I don't believe Imake has been patched to support textmode/binmode...
Thus the requirement in the xfree86 FAQ for binmode mounts.
As to interactions with SAMBA with that - I'm not even going to guess.
Rob