cygwin 1.5.3-1

[Charles Wilson]

Ralf --
   What happens when you run your cygipc-based build of X11, but do not 
have the ipc-daemon running?  You can't run KDE, of course, but does the 
Xserver itself still work properly?  Can non-KDE X apps work?

--
Chuck


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Well, that makes it easy.  SHM will not be supported by this new build.
> 
> Harold
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:45:34PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure.  How "automagically" is the IPC daemon installed?  If 
>>> it requires user intervention, then we cannot really have XShm in the 
>>> default install.
>>
>>
>>
>> You could make it a setup.hint dependency, of course, but that's only
>> half the battle.  The next step would be to get the cygipc daemon
>> started.  I don't think you want to go through that pain unless there is
>> a clean fallback for when cygipc isn't working right.