VNC patch for Xserver 1.3

[Alan Hourihane]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:04 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 21:41 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does anyone have an up-to-date vnc patch that applies agains xserver 1.3?
> >>
> >> I can't see an easy way to generate the patch via:
> >> http://xf4vnc.cvs.sourceforge.net/xf4vnc/
> >>
> >> Perhaps someone has a git tree somewhere with the relevant branches and
> >> thus have generated an up-to-date patch?
> >>
> >> I've got a patch that applies against v1.2 but things have changed too
> >> much in 1.3 for it to apply cleanly.
> >>
> >> Anyone done the necessary work?
> > 
> > What's the problem Colin ?
> > 
> > The CVS code should compile fine against 1.3.
> 
> Looking at it in more depth: am I mistaken or does:
> 
> http://xf4vnc.cvs.sourceforge.net/xf4vnc/modular/src/xserver/
> 
> contain a full copy of the Xserver code? Would this not suggest that it
> is not compiling "against" 1.3 at all? That it is, in fact, just
> compiling against it's own copy, taken at <point in time>?
> 
> Or am I missing something?

It contains a full copy of the xserver tree because it needs to build
Xvnc. It contains a pre-1.3 copy of the xserver tree though. But it
wasn't that far behind.

Alan.