Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Sat Nov 22 18:36:00 GMT 2003


Igor,

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>Igor,
>>
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>hi again...
>>>>
>>>>Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the "[: Seng: unknown
>>>>operand" problem is eleminated with the power of ""
>>>>qutoes :-D
>>>
>>>
>>>Good.  Harold, how do you want to go about incorporating the patch?
>>
>>As you suspected, I think this is actually a generated file.  Granted,
>>the input is similar to the output, but it is a different file that
>>needs to be patched.  Again, I cannot check this right now.
>>
>>As far as what to do with the patch, it is hard to say.  Are you just
>>asking about how it will get into my next release?  That should be easy.
>>  As far as finding it an upstream home, we still have to wait for the
>>tree on freedesktop.org to finish being setup.
>>
>>Harold
> 
> 
> Ok, I'll try to checkout the CVS tree at some point soon and produce this
> patch off the correct file.

Base the patch off of the SourceForge tree that we have for now:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoncygwin/


That's what I essentially do my builds from, so it should work. 
Hopefully the file in question is actually in that tree... if not, then 
just wait until our freedesktop.org tree is ready.

Harold



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