4.3.0-1 XFree86-etc package problem
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Sat Aug 2 20:12:00 GMT 2003
This is weird. I checked the generated Makefile for xc/programs/xterm.
Sure enough, it has install:: rules that copy, for example, XTerm.ad
to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. That example rule depends upont
XTerm.ad, in other words, it reads:
install:: XTerm.ad
... copy XTerm.ad to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
However, this rule *never* gets run. I removed the XTerm.ad dependency
and it magically works. I had to remove these dependences for several
other install:: rules, now they all work. I don't know if I will ever
try to get a fix checked into the XFree86 CVS tree for this... I have
dealt with the xterm maintainter before and he is "always right", so it
probably isn't worth the effort.
In any case, I have another update to XFree86-etc coming soon.
Harold
Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
> Apologies if this has been reported before, but there seems to be a basic
> problem with this version.
>
> I've tried two download sites and in both cases the files are installed in
> the wrong directory - /etc/X11/X11 instead of /etc/X11. This caused some
> unpleasant symptoms which mostly went away if the files were moved back into
> /etc/X11. Unfortunately xterm still didn't work properly because the XTerm and
> XTerm-color files have gone missing from the app-defaults directory. I've
> reverted to 4.2.0-1 for the time being.
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