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Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:24:39AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> I build from Samba all of the time with no problem (except for speed).
>> The only big gotcha is that symlinks don't work, although that will be
>> fixed in the next release.
>>
>
>Do you build with Imake?
>
>I don't believe Imake has been patched to support textmode/binmode...
>Thus the requirement in the xfree86 FAQ for binmode mounts.
>
>As to interactions with SAMBA with that - I'm not even going to guess.

I can't imagine why samba would be any different than a normal hard
disk.  It's not like there is any magic disk specific code for the
CRLF translation or in the mount table.

cgf
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