From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2542 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2003 18:57:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2535 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2003 18:57:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2003 18:57:11 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hATIvBMh007957 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:57:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id hATIvBpa007954 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:57:11 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:57:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem In-Reply-To: <3FBFACC6.80305@msu.edu> Message-ID: References: <20031121192050.14367.qmail@web60304.mail.yahoo.com> <3FBE6FCF.6090002@msu.edu> <3FBFACC6.80305@msu.edu> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00454.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Igor, > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > > >>Igor, > >> > >>Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: > >>> > >>>>hi again... > >>>> > >>>>Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the "[: Seng: unknown > >>>>operand" problem is eleminated with the power of "" > >>>>qutoes :-D > >>> > >>>Good. Harold, how do you want to go about incorporating the patch? > >> > >>As you suspected, I think this is actually a generated file. Granted, > >>the input is similar to the output, but it is a different file that > >>needs to be patched. Again, I cannot check this right now. > >> > >>As far as what to do with the patch, it is hard to say. Are you just > >>asking about how it will get into my next release? That should be easy. > >> As far as finding it an upstream home, we still have to wait for the > >>tree on freedesktop.org to finish being setup. > >> > >>Harold > > > > Ok, I'll try to checkout the CVS tree at some point soon and produce this > > patch off the correct file. > > Base the patch off of the SourceForge tree that we have for now: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoncygwin/ > > That's what I essentially do my builds from, so it should work. > Hopefully the file in question is actually in that tree... if not, then > just wait until our freedesktop.org tree is ready. > > Harold Harold, The file (startx.cpp) is in xc/programs/xinit, and the xoncygwin tree only has xc/programs/Xserver. Are you going to use the tree on freedesktop.org (which is already set up at "xorg") for further builds of the non-server parts? If so, should I use the MAIN branch there, or the XORG-CURRENT branch? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton