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RE: os-support/cygwin
- To: "Cygx \(E-mail\)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: os-support/cygwin
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:43:18 -0400
I'm gonna go with Alan on this one. We don't build the XFree86 server, we
build the sample server with our own hardware layer.
hw/xfree86/os-support/cygwin looks to me like an early, and abandoned
attempt to build an X server for Cygwin using the bulk of the XFree86
hardware layer; of course, there is no way that could work, as our server
cannot have direct access to the hardware.
In fact, the files in hw/xfree86/os-support/cygwin are quite clearly copied
from another os-support directory with only the names of the functions
changed. Tell me how a function like
hw/xfree86/os-support/cygwin/cygwin_video.c/newMapping() is going to be even
close to operating on Windows; as soon as somebody explains that to me, I'll
eat my words :)
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alan
> Hourihane
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 6:37 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: os-support/cygwin
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:31:34AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > Yes, It needs to be there./ It is a just a dummy crap to support
> > cygwinArchitecture. Do not remove it yet please, you might
> break a bunch of
> > imake
>
> Eh ?
>
> >From what I can see you never enter the hw/xfree86 directory
> to build any
> of that stuff. What would it break ?
>
> Alan.