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RE: FAQ Update suggestion (was: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: FAQ Update suggestion (was: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 06:22:40 -0400
>> 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
>