--- Greg Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:01:52AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris + Greg, > > > > Check your e-mail, I just e-mailed both you and greg an xfs.exe with > > debugging symbols. As for what version I'm running, it is the vanilla > > version that comes via setup.exe, a.k.a XFree86-4.2.0 on Cygwin > > 1.3.13-cygdaemon(special development branch). Also, you might want to > > check your /var/log/fs-errors, incase xfs output anything interesting > > there. > > > > Cheers, > > Nicholas > > > > G'day Nicholas, > > One of the first things I did was check /var/log/fs-errors only to > find nothing there, however.... > > I don't know about you, but the executable you sent works just > fine for me! (So the debugging symbols are for nought, but making > the executable was not in vain!!)
Excellent, I discovered the same thing. My previous report was for the original executable! As for logging, that is quite irritating, someone ought to look into that... > I tried it on my laptop with XP, and on Win98 running under VMWare > on FreeBSD. Worked fine on both. Super! > So I don't know what that portends. Can you give me a quick primer on > building just xfs from source? Then I can build my own and see if that > works. Possibly there might be a difference in the compilation process > when you are running 1.3.13-cygdaemon compared to my "standard" 1.3.12. > I know nothing about the build environment for the binary packages, but > it might be interesting to see how it compiled on my machine rather > than on yours to maybe narrow down the problem. > > I had a quick look and it looks to me like the only option via setup.exe > > if I want to make xfs is to download the full source for X. Is the > source > a special tree for cygwin or could I copy over the source I already have > from the ports tree on my FreeBSD box? Is it then as simple as going to > an > xfs sub-directory and typing make? Well, unfortunately I tried building just xfs directory of the XFree source tree, but that doesn't work. You'll have to follow the detailed instructions harold provides in the cygwin contributors guide: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/cygwin-xfree-cg.html You can follow the debugging directions if you want a debug build. You might want to set your cvs sticky tag to the xf-4_2-branch for the checkout if you run into problems with HEAD. If you do go this route, be sure to unset the sticky tag in the /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin directory. This way you'll get the latest Cygwin/XFree updates while keeping the rest of the distribution stable. > At least I know now that xfs can be made to work!! That means I will be > able to implement some of the things our local users need. Just need to > work out exactly why it sometimes fails. Please feel free to contribute! Patches are welcome! Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
