XFree 4.2.0

Chris January kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:24:56 -0000


> I have seen, that XShm depends not directly on shm, but the
> server and the official release does not contain shm
> support. That means supporting xfree 4.2.0 requires a
> patched xserver. This is very bad. :-(
> So I see two ways to solve this problem. First we can choose
> provide a patched xserver release and have to support it
> second or we wait for the coming cygwin(-daemon) release
> with shm support, of which I don't know when this would be
> ready.
>
> BTW: The libICE patch (missing _IceLastMajorOpcode symbol)
> is obsolate, because kde >= 2.2 dcop uses a patched ICE lib,
> which is integrated into kdelibs, so only libXext is left.
>
> Any comments ?
Isn't the shm stuff compiled conditionally based on whether HAVE_MITSHM is
defined in config.h or not?

Chris