XFree 4.2.0

[Chris January]

> > > 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.
I meant in KDE; KDE 2 uses a configure check to see whether it should use
Xshm or not.

Chris