[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.9.0-2 (TEST)

[Jon TURNEY]

On 26/10/2010 00:53, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 16:21 -0700, J. Offerman wrote:
>> Please advise on this error.
>>
>> =====================================
>>    CCLD   XWin.exe
>> /usr/lib/libXfont.a(miscutil.o):miscutil.c:(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `
>> _serverGeneration'
>> ../../dix/.libs/libdix.a(globals.o):globals.c:(.bss+0x4): first defined here
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Building xserver 1.9 requires a version of libXfont which will be
> uploaded shortly together with the rest of X11R7.6.

Specifically, as /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-server.README says, you need 
libXfont-devel-1.4.2-2, which hasn't been uploaded yet :-)

If you want to build libXfont yourself, the needed patch is [1]

[1] 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=8f75706901da0141590d46f0f898e5678feac953

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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