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RE: xfig


xfig may have been broken in CVS at the time of building the distribution.

We haven't been really careful here at Cygwin/XFree86 about building stable
releases from the stable branches in the CVS tree.  In fact, I don't believe
that we have ever done that, as we haven't had many complaints about bugs or
stability yet.

However, starting with the XFree86 4.2.0 release, which is coming up
shortly, I intend to build only from the stable branch, with patches applied
to bring our X Server up to date, if necessary.

So, the short answer is that you may have to recompile xfig, thus the whole
XFree86 tree, yourself.  Or, you can wait for the XFree86 4.2.0 release.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Karen Van
> Houten
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:33 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: xfig
>
>
> I have successfully downloaded and am running xfree86 on my computer.
> I've been able to run programs like xfig as a remote client using this
> system, but I can't run the xfig that comes with it.  I can run things
> like xclock, xeyes, xclipboard.  When I try to run xfig, it dumps a
> stack trace and then core dumps.
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Karen Van Houten
> CS Department
> University of Idaho
> Moscow, ID  83844-1010
> karenv@cs.uidaho.edu


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