Re: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Corinna,

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> This means, not too far from now, we can drop the cygipc package and
> packages like postgresql can switch to using Cygserver.

Additionally, most XFree86-* packages and anything that depends upon 
XFree86-bin or XFree86-base (cgoban, emacs-X11, ghostscript-x11, grace, 
gv, and tetex-x11).

> In future, Cygwin releases will be build with Cygserver support switched
> on.  Clients, which want to access the Cygserver capabilities, have to
> run with the environment variable CYGWIN set so that it contains the
> word "server".  I guess this will be the default at some later point.

So, there is no "cygserver" package... it will just be part of 
cygwin1.dll?  Is that correct?  Excuse me for not following development 
until now... it really hasn't affected me until today.

> The cygserver directory also contains a README file which describes

Where is this cygserver directory?  Are you referring to the CVS tree 
for cygwin1.dll?

> However, I'd like to ask maintainers of affected packages to give
> Cygserver a try.  You will have to rebuild your packages and you
> should make sure that the Cygwin header files sys/ipc.h, sys/msg.h,
> sys/sem.h and sys/shm.h overwrote the cygipc files before building
> your package(s).  And don't link against libcygipc ;-)

Sounds like we are going to have to have a flag day for Cygwin/X and all 
related packages to remove the link to cygipc and use the built-in SHM 
support provided by cygserver.  That is not really a problem for me, and 
I know more about package maintanence now so it should be easier this 
time around.

Harold