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From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2000-12-01 14:24:19
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--- Suhaib Siddiqi <ssi...@in...> wrote: > > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > > --- Jeff Sturm <jef...@ap...> wrote: > > > > > > > > No problem. (Can mingw build xfree86 yet? I know there > > was a cygwin > > > > project...) > > > > > > > > > > I would think that to be a real chore. > > The first task should be getting imake right, once that is there > patching libs and programs code should be easy, though time consuming. > If someone wants to tackle the imake build we'll add it to the available packages. > >Cygwin doesn't > > build it cleanly yet. > > > It takes me two to three hours to do the whole of xc but > > some executables don't > > > make for some reason or another. > > > Which executables! Everything SHOULD build. > I'll elaborate later on cygwin-xfree. Cursory view tells me it's in the fonts section. I also had to patch cygwin.rules for junk.c because the first parameter to dllMain has changed from HANDLE to HINSTANCE. > >I haven't investigated > > yet. One of the > > > headaches is that when I do `make World' it does a `make > > clean' by default and > > > I haven't figured out how not to do that yet. > > > You do not need to do a make World every time. You can do > make Makefiles then make makedepends from top level > directory. It will not run make clean. > > Thanks, that will come in handy. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:ear...@ya... --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ |