Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 8:53 AM
Subject: 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
>

I can't either. Several builders of xfree86 have reported problems with
SAMBA however. The two things that I think worth looking at are:
symlinks
Imake.

As you had already address'd symlinks, I thought it worthwhile to bring
up the Imake potential issue - in case you had been building with Imake
we could narrow the issues down to just symlinks.

Rob