On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:04:56AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >I am in the middle of rebuilding Cygwin/XFree86 for Cygwin 1.5.4. > >I wanted to check with others about the list of packages that should be >updated for the Cygwin 1.5.4 rebuild. Currently, I am thinking that the >following packages need to be updated: > >1) XFree86-bin >2) XFree86-fsrv >3) XFree86-prog >4) XFree86-nest >5) XFree86-prt >6) XFree86-vfb >7) XFree86-xserv > > >Any thoughts on what should happen with XFree86-lib-compat? Will it >even work anymore? If not, I had better pull it... but I don't want to >if I don't have to.
If a (dll or .a) library is exporting any function which passes around one of the types that have changed (uid_t, gid_t, off_t, ino_t, etc.) then it won't work anymore. Really, only libraries have to be recompiled unless you have a program that needs to manipulate a >2G file. cgf
