Emacs 21.2.1 having problems with latest Cygwin/X11

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Joe Buehler wrote:

> Gilbert Pilz wrote:
> 
> > xorg-x11-base:		6.8.2.0-1
> > xorg-x11-bin:		6.8.2.0-1
> > xorg-x11-bin-dlls:	6.8.2.0-1
> > xorg-x11-bin-lndir:	6.8.2.0-1
> > xorg-x11-etc:		6.8.2.0-1
> > xorg-x11-fenc:		6.8.2.0-2
> > xorg-x11-fnts:		6.8.2.0-3
> > xorg-x11-libs-data:	6.8.2.0-1
> > xorg-x11-xwin:		6.8.2.0-2
> 
> Hi.  I'm the GNU emacs maintainer for Cygwin and got an email
> about recent problems.  The first thing I notice is that
> X11 has changed from XFree86 to xorg.

This changed over a year ago. 

> Is there any correlation between the new X11 packages and
> the current crop of emacs problems?  Emacs may need a recompile
> to pick up changes in the X11 packages...

some dllnames have been changed from libX11.dll to cygX11-6.dll
but this was a year ago. For compatibility reasons there is still 
XFree86-lib-compat available.

bye
	ago
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