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RE: RE:Building XFree




> The -lipc from #define ExtraLibraries was removed in the recent
> code base, which was uploaded 2 weeks ago.  You must be working
> with XF3.9.18 source tree.
>
> Please edit the xc/config/cygwin.cf and remove -lipc from #define
> ExtraLibraries flags. Also change the #deifne HaveShm to NO in cygwin.cf.

Sorry xc/config/cygwin.cf should be xc/config/cf/cygwin.cf

>
> The IPC library has serious problems with shared memory in X.  It causes
> MIT-SHM
> to corrupt XF86 BigFonts and literally any X client which uses
> Xterm, Xclock is one of them, to crash due to shared memory
> problems and ACCESS_VIOLATION.
>
> >
> > I will try rebuilding it again
> >
> >
> > Also while I am here, I also get the following error
> > make[1]: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be
> incomplete.
> > Should I just ignore it?
>
> I have no idea about this warning... Does it come during compilation?
>
> Regards
> Suhaib
>
> >
> > Tks for the help and the good work
> >
> > Regards Trevor
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
> > Cc: "Cygwin-Xfree@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com"
> > <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2000 5:06
> > Subject: RE:Building XFree
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I tried posting a reply to the following message twice, yesterday.
> > > Somewhere
> > > in the cyberspace my replies got lost and were never posted.
> > >
> > > The -lXext undefined references you are getting because linXext in
> > > xc/lib/Xext did not
> > > get compiled.
> > > cd to xc/lib/Xext and type
> > > make
> > > then cut and paste the error messages.  It will help me to
> find out why
> > > compilation of linXext failed.
> > >
> > > It is a bad idea to link against existing X libs, in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib, when
> > > compiling X source tree.
> > >
> > > You cannot use ./configure to compile XFree source tree.  There is no
> > > configure.
> > > Seems to me you are new to compile X.  X is compiled using imake and
> > > makedepend
> > > which is invoked by typing
> > >
> > > make World >& World.log
> > >
> > > Suhiab
> > >
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > While building xfree 4.0 I get the following error.
> > >
> > >
> >
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-cygwin/2.95.2/../../../../i686-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
> > > open -lXext: No such file or directory
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1
> > >
> > >  Can anyone spare a moment to point me in the right direction
> to fix it?
> > It
> > > looks to be a simple path or environment variable problem?
> What is the
> > > best way to tell ld  the lib is in the /usr/X11r6/lib dir as
> xfree does
> > not
> > > use
> > >
> > "./configure --prefix=/usr/X11r6 --x-includes=/usr/X11r6/include
> > --x-librari
> > > es=/usr/X11r6/lib "
> > >
> > > My build is std CD v1.0 build with a path to gcc 2.95.2 added.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards Trevor
> > >
> > >


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