Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Thanks for identifying this as a regression.  I wasn't sure if this used 
> to work or not.
>
> I think that the attached patch for startx should fix this problem, if 
> you wouldn't mind testing it.

Yaakov,

Assuming this is the correct fix, attached is the corresponding patch to the 
xinit source (shell scripts generated through cpp, yuck :S)

Entered into bugzilla http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9864
--- origsrc/xinit-1.1.1/startx.cpp	2008-12-17 20:59:54.000000000 +0000
+++ src/xinit-1.1.1/startx.cpp	2009-02-16 21:01:44.625000000 +0000
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
     xauth -q -f "$xserverauthfile" << EOF
 add :$dummy . $mcookie
 EOF
-#ifdef __APPLE__
+#if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
     serverargs=${serverargs}" -auth '"${xserverauthfile}"'"
 #else
     serverargs=${serverargs}" -auth "${xserverauthfile}
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
 fi
 #else
 
-#ifdef __APPLE__
+#if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
 eval XINIT \"$client\" $clientargs -- \"$server\" $display $serverargs
 #else
 XINIT "$client" $clientargs -- "$server" $display $serverargs

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