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FW: compile problems Xutf8TextListToTextProperty not defined
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- Subject: FW: compile problems Xutf8TextListToTextProperty not defined
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:20:31 +1100
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- Thread-Topic: compile problems Xutf8TextListToTextProperty not defined
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Wright [mailto:kevin@wright.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:23 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Subject: RE: compile problems Xutf8TextListToTextProperty not defined
>
>
> Rob,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. When they were discussing this
> change on the list it sounded like a great idea...
>
> OTOH, even though this is marked as experimental, I think they
> are planning on making this type of change permanent. In
> which case, the makefiles (actually, I think it's the cygwin.cf
> for imake) for Xfree86 will have to be updated. Another
> possibility is to set an environment variable. I coudn't figure
> out a way to make this work. It seems the makefiles don't pick
> up any environment variables.
>
> --Kevin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:30 PM
> > To: Kevin Wright; Cygwin Xfree Mailing List
> > Subject: RE: compile problems Xutf8TextListToTextProperty
> not defined
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kevin Wright [mailto:kevin@wright.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:23 AM
> > > To: Cygwin Xfree Mailing List
> > > Subject: RE: compile problems Xutf8TextListToTextProperty
> not defined
> > >
> > >
> > > Suhaib,
> > >
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > The bad news is that due to changes in cygwin's compiler
> > > (version 2.95.2-7), the windows header files aren't found by
> > > default. I had to change the makefiles for the dll's to gcc
> > > -mwin32 to get this to work. IIRC, they recently went from
> > > -DWIN32 being the default to having to use -mwin32 to get the
> > > windows headers. Also the these files are now located in
> > > /usr/include/w32api. (gcc 2.95.2-8 is due out soon, so this
> > > might change again)
> > >
> >
> > Kevin, this is due to you downloading the "experimental" gcc. Gcc
> > 2.95.2-7 is marked as experimental for cygwin's setup, and
> by default
> > you would have got an older, more stable gcc.
> >
> > Rob
> >
>