gnome-terminal and vte: works fine

[Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)]

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Per Lundberg wrote:
> 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.

I've had posted for a while vte and gnome-terminal on my Cygwin Ports
repository[1], with the vte patch based on the Cygwin Gnome2 project.

[1] ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/

> 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.

scrollkeeper is also available via Cygwin Ports.

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

My progress in adding GNOME packages into the net release has been
slowed somewhat due to other requisite packages which have yet to be
updated in the release.


Yaakov
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