[PATCH:luit 0/3] configure.ac cleanups & bug fix

[Dan Nicholson]

On Jul 15, 2013 10:46 PM, "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
wrote:
>
> On 07/14/13 01:33 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 09:45:01PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>>>
>>> Note however that as is luit is currently broken on OpenBSD. I had to
>>> commit a patch to OpenBSD's xenocara to disable grantpt() check in
>>> configure.ac to avoid picking the support for it that was added to
>>> OpenBSD 5.3. I don't know yet if it's OpenBSD grantpt code that's
>>> broken or its use in luit.
>>
>>
>> fwiw, luit 2.0 works on OpenBSD
>
>
> So does anyone remember why we still have two versions of luit?
>
> We happily deprecated X.Org's xterm in favor of Thomas's many years ago,
> but somehow kept our own fork of luit in the process.

Since the only user of luit is xterm, I think it would make sense to
deprecate X.org's version. Thomas clearly has more incentive to maintain
it. When I worked on Linux from Scratch, our i18n guru declared that
Thomas's version worked better than X.org's and we used his. Not sure how
the situation is now.

Dan
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