[PATCH] XWin: Fix for static libXfont use

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Tue Jul 6 14:00:06 PDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:41:10PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Since we fix this by removing the serverGeneration symbol, assuming
> an external definition will be provided, this means on Windows libXfont
> can only be built as a static library (since PE shared libraries cannot
> contain undefined symbols).  This produces a libXfont which might only
> be useful to the xserver, but the only other user we might care about
> is xfs, which is obsolete...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk>

Ping: can we get a fix pushed?  This is still affecting the cygwin build.

Thanks,

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
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