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RE: FAQ Update suggestion (was: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22




>> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:56:14PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >1) Users will need CygIP for compilation and provide a link to
> >CygwUtils side
> 
> You're really going to add an external dependency to an unsupported
> package to your build?  I'm surprised.  It seems like you've just
> increased your support load.


I agree.  IPC (libipc.a) links statically therefore users will not need
to download it in order to use pre-compiled XFree86 binaries.

It does allow enableing XSHM which has a lots of advantages.  


> 
> cgf
> 


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