RE: FAQ Update suggestion (was: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Can I ask that we _do not_ distribute binaries with IPC 
> support enabled.
> Three reasons:
> 1) It's not part of cygwin core. It _may_ have problems with 
> fork(), and
> it will not interoperate with the coming in-cygwin implementation.
> 2) It's not part of cygwin core.... thus we will have more user
> questions because they cannot get it via setup.
> 3) I can't think of a third reason :]
>  
> > 2) users will need to install cygz.dll
> 
> They are advised to install all of cygwin now. The specific 
> package list
> is in Harold's User guide, and the latest sgml sources aren't uploaded
> AFAIK.
>  
> > 3) If compiling X application and linking to XPM, make sure 
> > you get ride of
> > /usr/include/X11 headers and cygXpm-X4 blah blah, which is 
> > just a duplicate
> > of stuff from Cygwin/XFree86..
> 
> Is this the text you want? If not I'm not quite sure what I should be
> saying ..



yes. Or at least rename /usr/include/X11 to something else.  





>  
> > 4) make srue you do not insatll libfreetype and other 
> > libraries and headers
> > already present in xc sources tree from CygUtils site.
> 
> Do we have a list of possible problems... users will not know 
> what is in
> the xc sources tree. 


At the moment no, but is it a good idea to have duplicate libraries and
headers on the same system.  They can be of different version and might
create
problems?

Suhaib

> 
> Rob
>  
> > Thanks
> > Suhaib
> > 
>