RE: os-support/cygwin

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

ok remove it on your PC


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 6:43 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: os-support/cygwin
> 
> 
> 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.
>