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Re: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support


On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:40:25PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>Corinna,
>
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>This means, not too far from now, we can drop the cygipc package and
>>packages like postgresql can switch to using Cygserver.
>
>Additionally, most XFree86-* packages and anything that depends upon 
>XFree86-bin or XFree86-base (cgoban, emacs-X11, ghostscript-x11, grace, 
>gv, and tetex-x11).
>
>>In future, Cygwin releases will be build with Cygserver support switched
>>on.  Clients, which want to access the Cygserver capabilities, have to
>>run with the environment variable CYGWIN set so that it contains the
>>word "server".  I guess this will be the default at some later point.
>
>So, there is no "cygserver" package... it will just be part of 
>cygwin1.dll?  Is that correct?  Excuse me for not following development 
>until now... it really hasn't affected me until today.

Right.  cygserver.exe will be part of the cygwin package.

>>The cygserver directory also contains a README file which describes
>
>Where is this cygserver directory?  Are you referring to the CVS tree 
>for cygwin1.dll?

Yes.

>>However, I'd like to ask maintainers of affected packages to give
>>Cygserver a try.  You will have to rebuild your packages and you
>>should make sure that the Cygwin header files sys/ipc.h, sys/msg.h,
>>sys/sem.h and sys/shm.h overwrote the cygipc files before building
>>your package(s).  And don't link against libcygipc ;-)
>
>Sounds like we are going to have to have a flag day for Cygwin/X and all 
>related packages to remove the link to cygipc and use the built-in SHM 
>support provided by cygserver.  That is not really a problem for me, and 
>I know more about package maintanence now so it should be easier this 
>time around.

The gotcha here, though, is that you still have to install cygserver
and get it running.  Corinna has provided install scripts to make
that to happen but experience shows us that there will probably be
some tweaking required before everything is perfect.

cgf


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