Compiing XWin...

[Thomas Chadwick]

Ages ago I did some messing around with compiling XWin.  I followed the 
steps in the Contributor's Guide, checking out the xc package from CVS and 
running make World.  After that I was able to play with XWin itself, 
recompiling just that target from the xc/programs/Xservers directory (or 
something similar - don't know if I'm remembering it quite correctly).

At the time, it occurred to me that if I installed the XFree86-lib and 
XFree86-prog packages via Cygwin Setup, it should be possible to get just 
the Xservers branch of the XFree86 source tree, run xmkmf to generate the 
Makefile, then build just XWin without having to download and build all of 
XFree86.  But I never got around to re-trying it that way.

I've recently been motivated to do some tinkering with XWin and before I set 
about the task of getting the source, compiling, etc., is there an obvious 
(or not-so-obvious) fallacy with my modified approach to building XWin?

FYI - A full build of XFree86 takes hours on my ThinkPad w/ Pentium III @ 
700MHz, 512MB RAM, and Win2k.

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