[Xastir-dev] Re: [Xastir] Cygwin help

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Daniel H. Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
> > Did we mostly duplicate that this morning between Tom's changes and
> > mine?
>
> Yes, though, I think "config.h" might aught to be included It wasn't in
> the cvs I just downloaded a few minutes ago.

That's not current.  Darned CVS on Sourceforge... It used to be
sync'ed nicely, then they ran out of processing speed and delayed
between the two.


> I should have some more updates/patches soon.  Will send them to the -dev
> list, when I'm ready, if that is appropriate.  I've been trying to focus on
> getting the cache space limits implemented.  I'm probably going to start
> using a secondary berkeley db "database" - it shouldn't require a second
> file.

Ok.  Xastir-dev is fine and appropriate.  Someone else might get to
it first, which is great.  I'm getting spread too thin at present.


> As a side note, I'm still struggling with a clock issue under VMware - my
> FedoraCore instance running under Windows VMware workstation has a clock
> where a second isn't a second long.  It means that - even with clock sync
> to OS enabled for vmware and ntpd running in linux, things get out of sync
> really quickly.  This causes things like "make" to not always play nice.
> Have spent too much time trying to figure that out, and not enough time
> writing c-code.  I believe it is related to the Intel "Speedstep" CPU
> clocking adjustments that my laptop does, but, none of the "fixes" I've
> been able to find online seem to have any affect.

Wow.  You're getting pretty deep into annoyances caused by the
emulation.  Not fun.  Makes me glad I'm running native Linux.  ;-)

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