FW: Kylix causing XWin to collapse (4.1.0)

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Eric sent me this response privately.

Harold

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Zurcher [mailto:Eric.Zurcher@pi.csiro.au]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:42 PM
To: Harold Hunt
Subject: RE: Kylix causing XWin to collapse (4.1.0)


Harold,

That was a quick response!

Yeah, as a matter of fact, we did recently upgrade Kylix to the Server
edition. I can't recall whether I tried running Kylix with Cygwin/XFree
after that upgrade - I probably didn't.

At 20:22 2001-07-09 -0400, you wrote:
>Eric,
>
>The error is generated by:
>
>xc/lib/font/Type1/curves.c/StepBezier ()
>
>The Cygwin/XFree86 project has never made modifications to that file, and
>that file was last changed 5 months ago.
>
>I have no ideas as to why the error is occurring.  Now, be straight with
us,
>did you update Kylix at, or near, the same time as switching from
>Cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 to 4.1.0?
>
>Harold
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib
> > Siddiqi
> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:12 PM
> > To: 'Eric Zurcher'; 'cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com'
> > Subject: RE: Kylix causing XWin to collapse (4.1.0)
> >
> >
> > What is Beziers?  This goes to Harold...
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eric Zurcher [mailto:Eric.Zurcher@pi.csiro.au]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:06 PM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Kylix causing XWin to collapse (4.1.0)
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just installed the Cygwin/XFree 4.1.0 binaries on a Windows NT 4
> > > platform. Nearly everything works fine, but when I try running Kylix
> > > on
> > > our local Linux block, XWin terminates immediately with the error
> > > message "Beziers this big not yet supported". This wasn't a problem
> > > with
> > > 4.0.3. Any clues?
> > >
> >

Eric Zurcher
CSIRO Livestock Industries
Canberra, ACT Australia
E-mail: Eric.Zurcher@pi.csiro.au