Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Mar 19 06:22:00 GMT 2004


Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have this built as a Cygwin package using the default configure
>>options at the moment.  The only patch required was to Makefile.in
>>(attached) to get it to stop appending .exe to the uxterm shell script.
>>
>>Thomas, can you recommend any configure options we should be using?  I
>>can think that the following might be useful:
>>
>>--enable-toolbar
> 
> 
> that's broken (some incompatible changes to Xaw from XFree86 4.4 that
> I've not gotten around to investigating0.

Good to know.

>>--enable-wide-chars
> 
> 
> you need this for uxterm

Huh... this is disabled by default in my new build.  I wonder if our old 
version had it enable or not.

>>--with-Xaw3d
> 
> 
> Some people like it.  Actually all of the Xaw flavors look very much alike
> to me.

Same here.  I could hardly tell the difference in xfig sometimes.

Harold



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