Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:21:32AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:11:07AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >> I'll tar up a file and try locally.
> >
> >If that doesn't work, download the CVS tree again, this time on your Windows
> >machine.  I have a feeling that your CVS checkout was probably messed up by
> >the whole Samba thing, but I could be wrong.
> 
> 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.
> 
Ok. But the XFree86 build makes lots of symlinks, Is it easy to turn this
off and make cygwin create copies ?

Alan.