XFree 4.2.0

[Ralf Habacker]

>
> > 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?

Yes it is and I have build and released a patched x server
and xext lib with MIT-SHM support using cygipc in the
kde-x-1.2 package.

Regards
Ralf