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Re: Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:26:33PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:21:32AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>Ok. But the XFree86 build makes lots of symlinks, Is it easy to turn this
>off and make cygwin create copies ?

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC57

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