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Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem


On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > Igor,
> >
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > >
> > >>Igor,
> > >>
> > >>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>hi again...
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the "[: Seng: unknown
> > >>>>operand" problem is eleminated with the power of ""
> > >>>>qutoes :-D
> > >>>
> > >>>Good.  Harold, how do you want to go about incorporating the patch?
> > >>
> > >>As you suspected, I think this is actually a generated file.  Granted,
> > >>the input is similar to the output, but it is a different file that
> > >>needs to be patched.  Again, I cannot check this right now.
> > >>
> > >>As far as what to do with the patch, it is hard to say.  Are you just
> > >>asking about how it will get into my next release?  That should be easy.
> > >>  As far as finding it an upstream home, we still have to wait for the
> > >>tree on freedesktop.org to finish being setup.
> > >>
> > >>Harold
> > >
> > > Ok, I'll try to checkout the CVS tree at some point soon and produce this
> > > patch off the correct file.
> >
> > Base the patch off of the SourceForge tree that we have for now:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoncygwin/
> >
> > That's what I essentially do my builds from, so it should work.
> > Hopefully the file in question is actually in that tree... if not, then
> > just wait until our freedesktop.org tree is ready.
> >
> > Harold
>
> Harold,
>
> The file (startx.cpp) is in xc/programs/xinit, and the xoncygwin tree only
> has xc/programs/Xserver.  Are you going to use the tree on freedesktop.org
> (which is already set up at "xorg") for further builds of the non-server
> parts?  If so, should I use the MAIN branch there, or the XORG-CURRENT
> branch?
>         Igor

Harold,

Here's a patch against the HEAD of the MAIN branch in the xorg tree at
freedesktop.org.  ChangeLog is below.  Let me know if there's a problem.
	Igor
==============================================================================
ChangeLog:
2003-12-02  Igor Pechtchanski  <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
	* xc/programs/xinit/startx.cpp: Make space-friendly.

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