[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu May 3 12:48:00 GMT 2001
> >"Cygwin/XFree86 uses it's own zlib library. If you wish to
> rebuild X with
> >native zlib support from cygwin, you need to get the zlib
> package from
> >the contrib section and install it. Secondly add the
> following to your
> >host.def file.
>
> How about:
>
> "Cygwin/XFree86 uses zlib from the cygwin contrib section.
> Make sure that
> you have downloaded the appropriate Cygwin libraries for
> correct operation."
>
> This seems a heck of a lot more friendly than asking people
> to rebuild.
Well. no, Xfree86 needs to stay in /usr/X11R6 for various reasons
otherwise you will be making life of developers a bit more difficult.
Suhaib
>
> cgf
>
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