RE: os-support/cygwin

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Hmm... I should have looked the os-support directory, as I just noticed that
nothing is being done, i.e. the Makefile is not generated in os-support, and
no compilation takes place in os-support or any subdirectories.  Therefore,
removing the directory will have absolutely no effect :)

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:02 AM
> To: 'Harold Hunt'; Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: os-support/cygwin
>
>
> ok remove it on your PC
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 6:43 AM
> > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: os-support/cygwin
> >
> >
> > I'm gonna go with Alan on this one.  We don't build the
> > XFree86 server, we
> > build the sample server with our own hardware layer.
> > hw/xfree86/os-support/cygwin looks to me like an early, and
> abandoned
> > attempt to build an X server for Cygwin using the bulk of
> the XFree86
> > hardware layer; of course, there is no way that could work,
> > as our server
> > cannot have direct access to the hardware.
> >
> > In fact, the files in hw/xfree86/os-support/cygwin are quite
> > clearly copied
> > from another os-support directory with only the names of
> the functions
> > changed.  Tell me how a function like
> > hw/xfree86/os-support/cygwin/cygwin_video.c/newMapping() is
> > going to be even
> > close to operating on Windows; as soon as somebody explains
> > that to me, I'll
> > eat my words :)
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alan
> > > Hourihane
> > > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 6:37 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: os-support/cygwin
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:31:34AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > > > Yes, It needs to be there./  It is a just a dummy crap
> to support
> > > > cygwinArchitecture.  Do not remove it yet please, you might
> > > break a bunch of
> > > > imake
> > >
> > > Eh ?
> > >
> > > >From what I can see you never enter the hw/xfree86 directory
> > > to build any
> > > of that stuff. What would it break ?
> > >
> > > Alan.
> >