Actually I think the patch Harold submitted was because the w32api was
wrong.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Alexander Gottwald'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: RE: Compile Problems with Harold's Server...
>
>
> > I think there were two possibilies.
> >
> > a) leave the w32api includes unchanged and modify whole xc-tree
> > b) fix the occurences in w32api and leave the x sources untouched
> >
> > since the first would have been a lot of work, I think the second
was
> > the best.
>
> Nope, first is the best. You do not need to modify whole 250 MB code
> of xc-tree it is ONLY Harold code in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin.
Therefore
> that needs to fixed for namespace issues, as John reported.
>
> I do not think it is a good idea that folks at Cygwin start patching
the
> headers
> for every software out there.
>
> >
> > Of course these changes should only be made when compiling for X (or
> > even just the XServer) and not for normal development.
> >
> > Maybe the inclusion of the affected windows headers can be
> > stopped by adding
> > some #define and #undef, but this is for the future when the
> > XServer is
> > running correctly and no other work has to be done.
>
>
> The code in hw/xwin needs to fixed. That is the best way to go.
>
> Suhaib
>
> >
> > Bye
> > ago
> >
> > --
> > Alexander Gottwald
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.gotti.org
> >
>
