On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:28:18PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > Some time soon I'm going to have to upgrade my present Cygwin/X > > > installation which is mostly 4.3.0.x Xfree to the latest Xorg > > > versions. > > > > > > How painless is this likely to be? I run Cygwin/X on a Win2k machine > > > and use it to display my Slackware Linux desktop using xdm. > > > > There should be only minor issues. XF86Config is not compiled in anymore. > > Lot's of bugfixes... > > > > But actually xorg 6.7.0 was just the next evolution of xfree 4.3.0 and > > fits in the old release tree > > > > xf 4.2 > > xf 4.3 > > xorg 6.7.0 > > xorg 6.8.0 > > xorg 6.8.1 > > > > So there should not be any big problems > > Here's one major PITA: xterm has moved from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. > If you have any scripts, batch files, or shortcuts that hardcode > /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm, you'll need to either change them to use > /usr/bin/xterm, or add a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin/xterm. > Igor
Thanks both, it sounds like it should be reasonably painless then. I don't have many (any?) scripts or anything that will be affected by the xterm move as my major use for Cygwin/X is as an X server for my Linux desktop on my Win2k machine. We're getting broadband this week hopefully so I'll probably wait for that before doing the big download/upgrade. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."