Compiing XWin...

[Thomas Chadwick]

Please ignore this message thread.  My original post (copied below) somehow 
got lost in the "ether" of the 'net for about 12 hours.  In the meantime, I 
sent another note on the same subject which went through nearly 
instantaneously.

>From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Compiing XWin...
>Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:51:37 -0400
>
>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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