Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:51:39AM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:10:33PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: > >I have cc'ed this to Nicholas since I'd like to know what version > >of X he was running... > > Actually, wouldn't you sort of assume that Nicho

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:51:39AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:10:33PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: >>Can I just ask what Windows system you tried it on and what version of >>cygwin X you have? Earlier Nicholas said he had it running on Windows Me, >>but did not say wha

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:10:33PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: >I have cc'ed this to Nicholas since I'd like to know what version >of X he was running... Actually, wouldn't you sort of assume that Nicholas is reading this mailing list, since he responded to your first message. There is rarely a nee

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
I have cc'ed this to Nicholas since I'd like to know what version of X he was running... On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:45:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. I'd never used the 'xset fp=' command before. > > Unfortunately, now that I've tried running things, the

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:24:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: >On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:57:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:17:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: >> >Then I have tried pointing my font path to it (with xset fp= ...) >> >from a number

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:57:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:17:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: > >Then I have tried pointing my font path to it (with xset fp= ...) > >from a number of sources > > > >1) remote machine running freebsd > >2) from

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:17:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: >Then I have tried pointing my font path to it (with xset fp= ...) >from a number of sources > >1) remote machine running freebsd >2) from cygwin x-server on the same machine >3) from XWinPro on the machine Can you send what, exactly, yo

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
> Either the 'mount' command or the 'cygcheck -r -s -v' would provide concrete > data for this. In case it helps, here is the output of 'cygcheck -r -s -v' also. I apologise if it is superfluous or unnecessary. Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Jul 06 13:26:56 2

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:53:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Do you mean during the initial installation did I choose "unix" style > >files? If so, yes. (And the fonts I've been testing with are just the ones > >installed by the cygwin package into /usr/X11R6/bin

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:49:23AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well then, has anyone on this list had xfs running properly under > > cygwin? > I just tried it yesterday on WindowsME, it works for me. You probably > will want to check to see if XP is running any serv

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:15PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: >On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Just a thought: How are the fonts mounted? Some programs don't like >> textmode files. >> > >G'day Alexander, > >I've only really got in to

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a thought: How are the fonts mounted? Some programs don't like > textmode files. > G'day Alexander, I've only really got in to cygwin since I've started having to run XP on my laptop, so I'm not s

Cygwin/XFree86 - Remove -DNO_TCP_H

2002-07-05 Thread Harold Hunt
Remove -DNO_TCP_H from cygwin.cf and a related #if !defined(__CYGWIN__) from xc/programs/lbxproxy/os/connection.c. Harold xc-programs-lbxproxy-os-connection.c-20020705-.diff Description: Binary data xc-config-cf-cygwin.cf-20020705-.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Features for hire?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
Frederic, > However, it depends how you manage to contribute with the > paid development to the XFree project. I mean, would such > development be made available to the community after a > while (say 3 months or more for example) ? Oh no, that was exactly the misunderstanding that I was trying t

Re: Features for hire?

2002-07-05 Thread frederic bregier
>From my point of view, I am not against payed development, even in open source project. But from my experience, it is not obvious about the availability in the long term for such development. I saw so many examples of open-source project that turn in commercial project and therefore splittin

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
Nicholas, > Well there is no point in keeping stale defines around, is there? > Obviously you were curious, otherwise you wouldn't have invested so much > time. :-) Right, there is no point to keeping around stale defines. Of course I was curious, and that's part of my problem: I get too curi

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Harold L Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas, > > > Anyhow, I think we are missing the whole point of this thread, what > were > > *YOUR* findings. > > I forgot to draw attention to what I found, but I did post your build > snippet > with warnings and my build snippet that didn't ha

Features for hire?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
I have been kicking around an idea that I'd like some feedback on. The Cygwin/XFree86 project is at the point where it is nearly a replacement for the commercial X Servers for Microsoft Windows. There remain only a few features that need to be implemented in order for most businesses to find Cyg

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
Nicholas, > Anyhow, I think we are missing the whole point of this thread, what were > *YOUR* findings. I forgot to draw attention to what I found, but I did post your build snippet with warnings and my build snippet that didn't have warnings for the same file. My overall results were that I g

Re: FW: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts installation

2002-07-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
Nicholas, > Let's assume I have followed the directions exactly (because this is what > has happened in the past when I followed them exactly). When > cross-compiling, why is make World trying to use the foreign utilities to > build the fonts? Shouldn't it be using the utilities under > /usr/X1

Re: FW: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts installation

2002-07-05 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Harold, On ~ line 66158 of my build log, you'll notice this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib ../../../exports/bin/bdftopcf -t tech14.bdf | gzip > tech14.pcf.gz /bin/sh: ../../../exports/bin/bdftopcf: No such file or directory LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib ../../../exports/bin/bdfto

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Harold Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas, > > > We had this discussion in the past, and yes I *have* read the > cygwin-xfree > > contributor's guide and followed your directions WORD-FOR-WORD, except > for > > removing the NO_TCP_H and defining font building. > > You could not possi

Server Test Series - Test 63 (a.k.a. 4.2.0-10)?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold L Hunt
Am I to follow the old adage that no news is good news in regards to Test 63? Test 60 through Test 63 changed over a thousand lines of code, with a lot of those changes occuring in Test 63; I can hardly believe that we haven't trigged lots of new bugs. In case you missed the announcement, you ca

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Greg Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:12:58PM -0400, Christopher Faylor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:54:38PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: > > >The "rules" say to post here, although would there be any point > asking > > >on the main cygwi

Re: FW: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts installation

2002-07-05 Thread Alan Hourihane
O.k. If the problem still exists, contact Keith Packard directly. It's more than likely he missed the post too. But this code is his domain and he's been banging on it a lot lately. I'm sure Keith will respond. Alan. On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:39:24AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: > Alan, > > Hmm.

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold Hunt
Nicholas, > I just tried... Not as complete as one would hope... Nevermind about > this... :-) What did you find that was broken? Were there build errors or did it just not run? See my message that I just sent. I've done a build so far and saw no problems related to removing -DNO_TCP_H. I

FW: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts installation

2002-07-05 Thread Harold Hunt
Alan, Hmm... as usual I misspoke... I was bitching about the ``findfonts'' script which runs on the installed fonts rather than on fonts being built. I'll have to look into the font build utility problem. I hate it when I get confused. Anyway, here is what I wrote to the XFree86 devel list. H

Re: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:30:37PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:22:00AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: > > Oh, I know that the XFree86 folks are doing some stupid things with respect > > to expecting certain XFree86 utilities to already be installed at build > > time. I bi

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Greg Lane wrote: > At the first font request to xfs running under cygwin, it core dumps. Just a thought: How are the fonts mounted? Some programs don't like textmode files. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:22:00AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: > Oh, I know that the XFree86 folks are doing some stupid things with respect > to expecting certain XFree86 utilities to already be installed at build > time. I bitched about this to the devel list at XFree86 and you know what? > I did

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Harold Hunt
Nicholas, > We had this discussion in the past, and yes I *have* read the cygwin-xfree > contributor's guide and followed your directions WORD-FOR-WORD, except for > removing the NO_TCP_H and defining font building. You could not possibly have followed the Contributor's Guide (CG) instructions w

RE: Use Tcp.h?

2002-07-05 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Harold, We had this discussion in the past, and yes I *have* read the cygwin-xfree contributor's guide and followed your directions WORD-FOR-WORD, except for removing the NO_TCP_H and defining font building. I checked out the Xfree tree with the 4.2.0 sticky tag. I then updated the xwin drivers

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Lane
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:12:58PM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:54:38PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: > >The "rules" say to post here, although would there be any point asking > >on the main cygwin list to get a broader coverage and try and find >