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.
> I meant in KDE; KDE 2 uses a configure check to
> see whether it should use
> Xshm or not.
I haven't seen it, do you know of any bad side effects not
using Xshm ?

Ralf