gnome-terminal and vte: works fine

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Per Lundberg wrote:

> Dear list subscribers,
>
> I have managed to get vte and gnome-terminal compiled and running on
> Cygwin/XFree. Seems to be working fine also, and it's nice to have when
> you are stuck in the Windows world. Attached is the patch for vte (based
> on another patch I found on the net, very small modifications to get the
> patch to apply with latest vte). vte is a package neccessary for the
> compilation of gnome-terminal.
>
> gnome-terminal compiles right out of the box (2.12.0, latest version)
> but there is some problems with the help files (because of missing
> scrollkeeper-preinstall). If you go into each of the help/XX
> subdirectories and run a manual "make gnome-terminal-XX.omf.out", it
> will generate these files anyway, but I have not tested whether the
> online help works or not.

Good to know.  You might want to test these before adding the package to
the distribution.

> I hope this makes someone happy. :-) How do we now go ahead and get these
> packages into the netinstaller?

Two ways.  One is <http://cygwin.com/setup.html>, but that requires an
active maiintainer, who is subscribed to the cygwin-apps list.  The other
is providing a custom mirror with just that package, and having the users
download it unofficially (look at the "setup.exe homepage" link on the
above page).

If you choose to go with the first approach, you'll need to ITP the
package(s) on cygwin-apps.

HTH,
	Igor
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