Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

[Greg Lane <gregory dot lane at anu dot edu dot au>]

G'day Nicholas,

I managed to build xfs in a pretty kludged up way by checking out what
the makefile does. I copied the source from my FreeBSD box and started
"make World" up until where it is making the makefiles, then hit ^C.

Then I did "make -f xmakefile - --unix" for the following targets: 
Makefiles, clean, includes, depend.

This only takes a few minutes and seems to leave the system in a state where 
I can cd into programs/xfs and just "make -f xmakefile - --unix".

xfs built OK, but unfortunately it crashed in exactly the same manner
as before. It (probably) wasn't the build method, since I compiled
xeyes and it worked. 
 
On a whim I tried to build using gcc from mingw. That was just a mess
and is well past the boundaries of my current knowledge. I need to do 
some serious reading before I can try anything else. I glanced over the 
cygwin X building web pages and at 3am its just too much to start thinking
about. Besides, I have to prepare a talk for a conference that I am 
heading off to later today. 

At least I can use your executable on my laptop while I am away!

Thanks,
Greg