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RE: FAQ Update suggestion (was: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
- To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, 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 06:59:45 -0400
> Can I ask that we _do not_ distribute binaries with IPC
> support enabled.
> Three reasons:
> 1) It's not part of cygwin core. It _may_ have problems with
> fork(), and
> it will not interoperate with the coming in-cygwin implementation.
> 2) It's not part of cygwin core.... thus we will have more user
> questions because they cannot get it via setup.
> 3) I can't think of a third reason :]
>
> > 2) users will need to install cygz.dll
>
> They are advised to install all of cygwin now. The specific
> package list
> is in Harold's User guide, and the latest sgml sources aren't uploaded
> AFAIK.
>
> > 3) If compiling X application and linking to XPM, make sure
> > you get ride of
> > /usr/include/X11 headers and cygXpm-X4 blah blah, which is
> > just a duplicate
> > of stuff from Cygwin/XFree86..
>
> Is this the text you want? If not I'm not quite sure what I should be
> saying ..
yes. Or at least rename /usr/include/X11 to something else.
>
> > 4) make srue you do not insatll libfreetype and other
> > libraries and headers
> > already present in xc sources tree from CygUtils site.
>
> Do we have a list of possible problems... users will not know
> what is in
> the xc sources tree.
At the moment no, but is it a good idea to have duplicate libraries and
headers on the same system. They can be of different version and might
create
problems?
Suhaib
>
> Rob
>
> > Thanks
> > Suhaib
> >
>