Re: Compile Problems with Harold's Server...

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Actually I think the patch Harold submitted was because the w32api was
wrong.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "'Alexander Gottwald'" <gottwald@prudsys.com>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: RE: Compile Problems with Harold's Server...


>
>
> > I think there were two possibilies.
> >
> > a) leave the w32api includes unchanged and modify whole xc-tree
> > b) fix the occurences in w32api and leave the x sources untouched
> >
> > since the first would have been a lot of work, I think the second
was
> > the best.
>
> Nope, first is the best.  You do not need to modify whole 250 MB code
> of xc-tree it is ONLY Harold code in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin.
Therefore
> that needs to fixed for namespace issues, as John reported.
>
> I do not think it is a good idea that folks at Cygwin start patching
the
> headers
> for every software out there.
>
> >
> > Of course these changes should only be made when compiling for X (or
> > even just the XServer) and not for normal development.
> >
> > Maybe the inclusion of the affected windows headers can be
> > stopped by adding
> > some #define and #undef, but this is for the future when the
> > XServer is
> > running correctly and no other work has to be done.
>
>
> The code in hw/xwin needs to fixed.  That is the best way to go.
>
> Suhaib
>
> >
> > Bye
> >     ago
> >
> > --
> > Alexander Gottwald
> > gottwald@prudsys.com
> > www.gotti.org
> >
>