Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:09:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:48:56AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > > IMHO your behaviour is contra-productive, since AFAIK all 
> > > Cygwin DLLs will
> > > have now a cyg prefix instead of lib. 
> > 
> > I am not going into any more discussion.  If you read the mail list from
> > last week.
> > Chris Faylor mentioned "cyg prefix is considered depricated...."  So ARE ALL
> > THE DLLs
> > are going to CYG  PREFIX?  I guess NOT.
> 
> But that has nothing to do with the cyg prefix. The name of
> the dll itself is in fact not worth to discuss. The problem
> is in using _any_ other libz library besides the libz which
> is provided by the Cygwin base distro. Moving it to latest
> wouldn't be a problem but I don't think that matters.
> 
People perceive the contrib section to be something that is not usually
required. We either need to move it to latest, so it becomes a required
component. Or, we document it in Cygwin/XFree86 with the following .....

"Cygwin/XFree86 uses it's own zlib library. If you wish to rebuild X with
native zlib support from cygwin, you need to get the zlib package from
the contrib section and install it. Secondly add the following to your
host.def file.

#define HasZlib YES

Now, rebuild X."

I don't have a preference either way, so I'll leave you guys to bash it out.

Alan.