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Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin


On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:11:07AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>> I'll tar up a file and try locally.
>
>If that doesn't work, download the CVS tree again, this time on your Windows
>machine.  I have a feeling that your CVS checkout was probably messed up by
>the whole Samba thing, but I could be wrong.

I build from Samba all of the time with no problem (except for speed).
The only big gotcha is that symlinks don't work, although that will be
fixed in the next release.

cgf


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