freedesktop.org - Hosting for future Cygwin/X development

David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com
Wed Oct 29 18:37:00 GMT 2003


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I am interested in the work going on in the xlibs and xserver 
> repositories, which are an autotooled build of most X libs and the X 
> Server.  I was able to build all but Xft from CVS (need a newer 
> version of FontConfig to build the latest Xft) using static libs, but 
> it should be easy to get shared libs built again by adding 
> -no-undefined flags.  I am very interested in pursuing this modern 
> build system.  We won't use it immediately, but we could probably do a 
> distribution from it in three to six months.

I reckon this alone would be worth the move...

Good decision
David




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