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Re: Has anyone run xdm successfully under cygwin?


>> pbs wrote:
>>> pbs wrote:
>>>> pbs wrote:
>>>>> I have come back to this problem and have messed around with xdm on a
>>>>> Windows XP home edition using Cygwin 1.5.24(0.156/4/2). It still has
>>>>> similar problems to those I experienced back in 2003. So in the
>>>>> interim
>>>>> has anyone successfully run the program?
>>>> So that I can trace the problems further, I would like to download the
>>>> source code for xdm and compile it. I looked at the instructions at
>>>> http://x.cygwin.com/ and could not work out how I can go about
>>>> downloading xdm sources and supporting libraries. Please could someone
>>>> point me to a document on how to download the necessary source code, or
>>>> tell me how to do it.
>>> OK I know it is available in this package
>>> http://cygwin.com/packages/xorg-x11-bin/xorg-x11-bin-6.8.99.901-1-src
>>> but I don't now yet how to download and build it. Can someone please
>>> give me some pointers.
>>
>> found a mirror site via
>> http://sourceware.org/ -> http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html ->
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/ etc
>>
Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not know about this package but all other packages' source can be
> downloaded via setup.exe with checking the proper checkbox.
>
> The sources will then automatically fit to the binary you have on your
> machine.

Thanks I had not see the src column, It was scrunched up until you
mentioned it and I expanded it :-)


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